Story Quotes

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

We are the hero of our own story.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

I wish I had a funny 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.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.