Stories Quotes - Page 116

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

My stories are character driven.

You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.

When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.

I'm always going to have a story to tell.

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

I'm a New York story.

Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.