Stories Quotes
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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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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
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Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
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There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.
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All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
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It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.
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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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Great stories move through fear.
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The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
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I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
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If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
