Story Quotes
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.
He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.
It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.
You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
It is action that creates motivation.
Act like a champion, and then become one.
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.
You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.