Stories Quotes - Page 239

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.

Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Country music has the great stories.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."

I think tone gives birth to the story.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.