Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert McKee

Story is about originality, not duplication

Robert McKee

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

Robert McKee

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Robert McKee

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

Robert McKee

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Robert McKee

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Robert Greene

Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

Rob Marshall

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

Raymond Carver

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

Ray Stevenson

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

Ray Harryhausen

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

Raul Garcia

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.

Rashida Jones

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Randy Alcorn

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

Tony Robbins

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

Tony Robbins

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

Simon Sinek

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

Simon Sinek

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

Simon Mainwaring

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Rick Riordan

It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy

Tim Gunn

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

Thucydides

Stories happen to those who tell them.

Thomas Carlyle

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Tony Hsieh

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Tom Savini

My favorite movies are love stories.

Steven Spielberg

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Steven Spielberg

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

Steven Heighton

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Sam Keen

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

Sam Keen

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

Roy H. Williams

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Stockwell Day

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

Stewart Udall

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.