Stories Quotes - Page 191

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious.

If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful thing to get to have in a story. And in a movie, it's amazing, because you actually get to show things.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always".

I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

It's cool to tell a real story.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved the story and the characters. We thought it would make a very compelling season of television. We were like, "Someone is going to make this. Why don't we do it?"

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.