Story Quotes
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If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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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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It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
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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 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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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
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For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.
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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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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
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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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Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.
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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.
