Story Quotes

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

It is over with; I am in the history books.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

I laughed all the way through Love Story.

It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I believe clothing tell a story.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.