Stories Quotes - Page 121

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

All true stories end in death.

It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.