Dustin Hoffman Quotes

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

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• It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Story

• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Story
  • Problems

• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Singing
  • Happiness
  • Story

• A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Story
  • Now

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Story
  • Doing

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Myself
  • Story
  • Romantic

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Story
  • Inside

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

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

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Character
  • Story
  • Brand

• I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Years
  • Story
  • Toy

• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Story
  • Memory

• If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Family
  • Vision
  • Story

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Device

• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Honest
  • Nostalgia

• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
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