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You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.
I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?
And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .
I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.
You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!
It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow South.
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.
I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.