Stories Quotes
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It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.
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If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
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Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.
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I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).
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Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.
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If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
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When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.
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I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.
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I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.
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The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.
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All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
