Stories Quotes - Page 219

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty otherwise. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.