Story Quotes
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With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.
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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
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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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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I can identify that from reading the script, then I've got a clear idea of whether or not I think the character is worth playing.
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Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
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I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
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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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Every story is us
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At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
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The best story is the story that gets to the most people.
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A scene isn't a random stretch of action. It arises for a reason, and it's going somewhere. It has meaning. It has a point: at least one thing that needs to be shown or established at that spot in a story.
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It's no sin to tell a good story.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
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The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word.
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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
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I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
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I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.
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I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
