Stories Quotes - Page 164

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

Atari is a very sad story.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

There's no good story without romance.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.