Stories Quotes - Page 81

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise.

There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

Sad stories make good books

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.