I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling… — Drew Roy Copy Share Image
I just love films and any time you get to see a film with a good story, no matter how much money… — Olafur Darri Olafsson Copy Share Image
It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead… — Lin Shaye Copy Share Image
You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want… — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his… — James Payn Copy Share Image
The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting.… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I think in telling a good story there has to be ups and downs with any character, and you can't just have… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better… — John Irving Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily… — Joyce Thompson Copy Share Image
When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I… — Blackie Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels,… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing for both kids and adults, though I think I'm better at children's stories because I was a teacher for… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever,… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
