Stories Quotes - Page 72

I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.