Stories Quotes
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The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
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Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform it, and that's another way that I get an alternate point of view that isn't the official version of history out to a community. I feel that's what I've been doing since Caramelo.
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My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
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What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this marketing material deliver that information?
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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
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There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
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Finish your stories! Read a lot!
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
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Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic to a fault, I internalize a lot, so it can be a bit hard sometimes, but I understand that that's what they need, and if I can do it, then I'll do it, but if I can't, then I'll try to take a knee.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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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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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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.
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I would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
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Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.
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I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
