Stories Quotes

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

The truth is not so good a story.

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Certainly there will always be stories.

When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

We just don't want to repeat anything that we've done in the movies [X-man] or that we're going to do in the movies. There's so many stories to tell, we just want to stay out of each other's way.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.