Story Quotes
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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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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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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 filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
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Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
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Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.
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If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
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The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.
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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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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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It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.
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The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.
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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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I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.
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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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A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.
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It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
