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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.
Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.
You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.
We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.
I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.
One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.
I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.
Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.
Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.
I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.
Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.
A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.
Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.