Story Quotes

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.

I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.