Story Quotes
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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 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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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
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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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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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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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The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
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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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There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.
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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.
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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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Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
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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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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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Everyone has a story that changed their life forever. Remember to have compassion.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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The local news does a story about it and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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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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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.
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Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
