Stories Quotes
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I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.
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Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.
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I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
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No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
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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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Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
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I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.
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I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.
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Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.
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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 do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
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It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
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I read about the Trinity. I found something - Jesus was Jewish, he was a rabbi! - and I read a lot of stories about Jesus in Israel. And it's interesting that they picked me for this part in The Snack, and I'm Jewish, I'm kind of religious Jewish from Israel, and I don't look like the traditional Jesus with the long blonde hair and blue eyes.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
