Story Quotes

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

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.