Stories Quotes - Page 74

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

I love sitting down with my friends at dinner and actually telling them a story, as opposed to going, "Hey, did you see that thing I posted on Instagram?" For me, I would so much rather sit there and actually share a story with somebody and have somebody tell me about their trip, or things like that. I don't need to see it.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.