Story Quotes
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The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.
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I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I know, and I try to roll all sounds into one, to accumulate more and more syllables, as if they might make a Möbius strip of language in which everything, everything is contained. There is a hidden rule even in this game, though - that the sounds have to resemble real syllables, that they can't disintegrate into brute noise, for then I wouldn't be talking at all. I want articulation - but articulation that says the whole world at once.
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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.
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Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.
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No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
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When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.
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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
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Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
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'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
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When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
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The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are going to have to face: what the character story is within the action sequence.
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Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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“All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”
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The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
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But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
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He had become a character in a play, same story, over and over.
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If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
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I got a seven-year-old kid up on stage with me the other night and he knew every word to that song. Some people go their whole career without ever having a song anywhere near that big... When I first heard it I couldn't believe I didn't write the lyrics myself because it's the story of my life.
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You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn’t go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
