Stories Quotes - Page 78

There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Isn't any friendship a love story?

I laughed all the way through Love Story.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

Everyone has a story.