Story Quotes
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There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.
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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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Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.
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Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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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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Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.
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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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God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
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He had become a character in a play, same story, over and over.
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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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But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
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You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
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When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
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A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
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You did it because you wanted to sell a story.
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Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.
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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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I'm a big fan of revenge, I think Sweeney Todd it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
