Quotes about stories
stories originality duplication
Story is about originality, not duplication Robert McKee
stories form universal
Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.
stories answers helping
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.
stories talent materials
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
stories life-is metaphor
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
stories action failing
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
stories natural-gifts language
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. Robert Greene
stories movement way
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. Rob Marshall
stories want way
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again. Rebecca Miller
stories littles narrative
TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution. Tucker Max
stories faces finals
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories. Tad Williams
stories shapes
She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
stories ends
Nothing’s worse than a story without an end. Samantha Shannon
stories seven existence
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. Tom Robbins
stories actors hollywood
I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between? Tom Folsom
stories way males
In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories. Todd Haynes
stories beginning-middle-and-end expanding
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. Steve Earle
stories west sides
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation. Stephen Sondheim
stories pieces littles
The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.
stories want relevant
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant. Zoe Saldana