Stories Quotes
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...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
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I am the guinea pig of my films in a way. I test the stories a bit before I make them. I've never hung myself like the character in my latest film, but I've tried to be a reporter of life.
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A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
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It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.
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When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.
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Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
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Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.
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I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.
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My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!
