Story Quotes
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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The Beatles' story is all of our stories.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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The story is more important to me than the part.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
