Good Quotes

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

A good story never dies.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.