Stories Quotes - Page 233

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Don't have stories; have sentences.