Story Quotes
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Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
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As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.
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Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
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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 that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
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Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.
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I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
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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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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
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To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
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If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.
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A good story never dies.
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The Bible continues to tell the story of how God did not simply walk away from his creation in the midst of turmoil and rebellion but purposed to rescue it at great cost to himself through the sacrificial death and subsequent resurrection of his Son, Jesus.
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Yes... no one knows how the story will end. Perhaps a miracle will occur. So right here and now, laugh with others as much as you can.
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When you got a great cast around you, it makes the story easier to tell, to be honest.
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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
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I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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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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What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
