Stories Quotes - Page 88

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.