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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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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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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The story is the first thing and the last thing.
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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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It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.
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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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Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
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This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.
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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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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Sometimes, we become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
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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 Heart of Fairyland is a story
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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Everyone has a story that changed their life forever. Remember to have compassion.
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Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
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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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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
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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.
