Story Quotes
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Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
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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, which I hope this one does, 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 love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.
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Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
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I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.
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Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
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It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.
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A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
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You must remind me: “Edith! Speak up! Tell the story.” It has been more than half a century. I suppose it is time.
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Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.
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He's a story i want to know from page one.
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What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.
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For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
