Story Quotes
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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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I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
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The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
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Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.
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The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
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My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
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Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
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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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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.
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I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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I might like to believe that every day, every hour, every minute of every hour of every day with Henry was *not* the happiest time I ever knew. I might like to believe that I am remembering it that way only because the happiest time ever makes it a better story. Because that's all you have left after people are gone from you, some things and some stories.
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Another story must begin!
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What I expect from a good story is that it will tell me today what I can't know from any other source but that story, from its unique way of putting something into words, from the feeling that it implies.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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People say a story is a window into another mind, another world. I believe they are more mirrors that windows. In them, we glimpse ourselves dressed up as the characters. And like any reflection, the truth we see can be hard to swallow.
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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?
