Story Quotes
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Everybody has a story to tell.
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I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.
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Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
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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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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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Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
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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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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
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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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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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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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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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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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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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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 did the film because it is a personal thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its story, its intrigue, its drama.
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But most of our patients were unable to make their past into a story that happened long ago.
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Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
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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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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.
