Stories Quotes - Page 73

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

A story can only be contained in a book.

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Empathy is the key to great stories.

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

I like it when stories are left open.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.