Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nigel Kneale

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Morris Chestnut

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Morris Chestnut

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Monica Lewinsky

You can insist on a different end to the story.

Michael Azerrad

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Shane Carruth

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Sean Bean

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

Michael Welch

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Michael Pollan

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Sidney Poitier

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sherilyn Fenn

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Sherilyn Fenn

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell

Scott Eastwood

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

Lorrie Moore

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

Liya Kebede

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Margaret Mahy

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Michael Cunningham

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Crichton

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Michael Schudson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Markus Zusak

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Michael Hastings

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

Michael Hastings

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Mason Cooley

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Michael Connelly

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Michael Chabon

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Michael Arndt

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Michel Hazanavicius

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

Miranda July

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.