Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Yahoo Serious

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

William Throsby Bridges

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Zadie Smith

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Zhang Yimou

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Sara Sheridan

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Sanjay Dutt

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Sarah Polley

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

Will Packer

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

Walter Benjamin

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

Samuel Richardson

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

William Landay

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

William Landay

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

William Joyce

Everyone's story matters.

William Joyce

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

Walter Dean Myers

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft

Walter Isaacson

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Virginia Woolf

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Vincente Minnelli

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Vincente Minnelli

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Vincente Minnelli

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Woody Guthrie

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

William Saroyan

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

William Morris Hunt

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

Will Gluck

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

Sarah Addison Allen

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Salma Hayek

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Salman Rushdie

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Salman Rushdie

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.