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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.
What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.
Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.
I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.
I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.
If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.
It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
All I watch is war movies. The stories be touching... just to see what they go through on both sides of the fence.
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.