Stories Quotes
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I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
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We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
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Empathy is the key to great stories.
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
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The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.
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For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
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I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
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Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
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I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
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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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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
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Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
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Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
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I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'
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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
