Stories Quotes
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TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.
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There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
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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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Goldie Hawn is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.
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I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
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I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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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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As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
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Great stories move through fear.
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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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When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
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Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.
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I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18-years-old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
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Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
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When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
