Story Quotes
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
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.
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
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.
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.
But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.