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I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.
I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.
And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.
Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.
The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.
The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.
Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.
Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.