Stories Quotes
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When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
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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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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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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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Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
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All my jewelry has stories.
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The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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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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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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I remember a point in writing the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."
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I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.
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Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.
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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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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
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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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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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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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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
