Stories Quotes - Page 52

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.