Story Quotes
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The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s trying to redeem himself or to find something to believe in-some kind of faith or hope.
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
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Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
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I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
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If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
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Once I was 20 years old, my story got told. Before the morning sun, when life was lonely. Once I was 20 years old.
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Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
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My truth is I wasn’t ready to tell my story. For me it was always protecting the show.
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What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
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I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words.
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
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Don’t make your story too big. I don’t want you big-noting me.
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It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
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Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.
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I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
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For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
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You either hear the story and you're curious, and you're sort of sympathetic, or you think, "Ugh, how horrible." That's dehumanizing. How about we take that and turn Christine Chubbuck into a person and it's not about the final act, it's about her life. I felt that really strongly, and I felt a sort of deep sympathy with her. It's also why I do what I do. I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
