Stories Quotes - Page 137

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

A novel means a new way of doing a story

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

[Jim Belushi] and I have a great thing going, and a really weird, offbeat story. [Living In Peril] is the type of movie that I don't even know if it would be made today. Just a very odd film. But a very fun movie.

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a wonderfully impressive debut: tender, muscled and unforgettable.

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.