Stories Quotes
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
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Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
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I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.
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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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For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.
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I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities
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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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When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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We all have our own stories to tell and you can draw inspiration from anywhere. Sometimes the best things happen when you just sit in a room together and let whatever happens happen.
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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He was so well behaved back in the day. He was one of the few crew members we could count on. There are so many stories about me that he could tell you, but I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a story about him.
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I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.
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I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
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I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
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You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote.....this is actually a really funny story...'Ghost Of Vincent Price', I've been wanting to write a song about Vincent Price coz he's one of my favorite characters of all time.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
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Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.
