Stories Quotes - Page 55

Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.