Stories Quotes - Page 108

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

It's really quite an interesting dynamic. I wanted to play to the truth of who Manute was in the first film, while it's also a prequel and the originator [of the story]. It was an interesting dynamic to work with, definitely. I haven't seen the film yet, but the way it felt when I was doing it, it felt like it worked.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories