Stories Quotes - Page 159

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and hes so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think thats what movies should be about.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

But in a story I can steal her soul.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Let the story tell itself.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

A true war story is never moral.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just think we don't know. God manifests himself, herself or itself in a way that we need it, in a way that we can grab a hold of and a way that we can put our arms around.

Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.