Stories Quotes - Page 249

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

People who know various movie versions don't really know the story.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I think we think in terms of stories.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.