Stories Quotes - Page 207

The metaphors exist for the stories.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to stories that we love - so, even if there is a familiarity, if you can do it a different way and hopefully do it well enough, you actually feel the satisfaction of that anticipation given back to you.

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.