Story Quotes
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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They're pretty simple. They don't have a lot of fancy gingerbread details. Everything is straight and flat and usually one-story.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
