Stories Quotes
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
