Stories Quotes - Page 93

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

he's a story i want to know from page one

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.