Story Quotes
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You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
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A good story never dies.
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I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.
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The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
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Donald Trump attacked the woman reporter writing the story, called her "disgusting," as he has called a number of women during his campaign.
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But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.
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Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
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We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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[...] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
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Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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Improvise. Write your own damn story.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
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My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
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Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.
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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
