Stories Quotes
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.
Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.
No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.
I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.
I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.
Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.
Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.
About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.
It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.