Stories Quotes - Page 180

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the online side and people who had been there forever. There was one journalist who had running shoes under her desk in case she had to kick of her heels and go out and cover a breaking news story.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about. Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.