Stories Quotes
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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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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 just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.
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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
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It's the story that counts.
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Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
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Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.
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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
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When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
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The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
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We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.
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I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
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That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
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They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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We need new stories, but I am looking forward to The Dark Crystal.
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Over the weeks I am surprised to find that the more stories I record and the longer I carry them around, the lighter they become. I find out that the difference between knowing something and being able to talk about it is that there we many hands now, and we all share the burden...
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I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.
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I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.
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It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.
