Stories Quotes - Page 131

Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.

I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen.

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.