Stories Quotes
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If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
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X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.
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I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
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I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
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You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
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My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.
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Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
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As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
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Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
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We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
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You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
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I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.
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I love the idea of longevity in this career. But producing is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line." Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor.
