Stories Quotes - Page 240

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.

We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.