Story Quotes

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

Atari is a very sad story.

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

Now you know the rest of the story.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.