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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.
["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.
Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in
Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.
[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.
Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.
That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.
Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.
I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman
Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.
But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.
Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.
I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.
My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.
We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.
I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger.
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.