Story Quotes

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.

It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.

With 'The Sixth Sense, ' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.

My greatest success story has been my family.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Every great brand is like a great story.

A good story can travel in time and borders it hits you no matter where you are.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.

It's the story that counts.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.