Story Quotes
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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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I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
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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 wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
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I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
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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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I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
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I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.
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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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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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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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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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There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
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The heart responds to the conflict within a story.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
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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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But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.
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There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
