Stories Quotes

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

I'm the type to tell stories while letting myself go.

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.