Stories Quotes

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.