Stories Quotes - Page 143

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

We kept moving forward, kept pretty particular about certain things. Don Handfield is really great with story, so we kept working on it from that angle and developed a lot of IP over the years, which we became very proud of.

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

Every heart is made of stories.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize the only one that hasn't had to print a retraction is the National Inquirer