Story Quotes
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My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.
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Beyond telling a story, they are sensations that I sought to capture in the form of a song.
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He had become a character in a play, same story, over and over.
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Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.
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In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
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The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."
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This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.
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The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
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The album’s a story, and the story’s about a concept. Sure, it’s a concept record. I think the songs can exist on their own, independent of the record, but they don’t necessarily make sense that way.
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I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.
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The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
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There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
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A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
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I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.
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When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.
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If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
