Stories Quotes
A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.
I got so into moisturizing, my skin started overproducing oil. That's my story. There's a lot to talk about, for sure.
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.
I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.
Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.
I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.
If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.
Don’t see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to
All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.
Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.
In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.
I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the first time I've played a character who is alive.
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.
I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.