Story Quotes

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 start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.