Stories Quotes
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There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
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Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.
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I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
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People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.
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I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
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Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.
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There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
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I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
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He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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A story? No. No stories, never again.
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I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
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I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.
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The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
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(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
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People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.
