Story Quotes
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We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.
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One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
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Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
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The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
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The reason we choose the songs that I’ve already been released is that I wanted this album to tell the story of my life for the past four years and I think that the songs that we’ve already released are integral to my story and to my sound and my vision as a musician.
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With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
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The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.
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To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.
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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
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All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
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At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
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I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
