Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin'… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Before I take you into the beating heart of the story, let’s get one thing out of the way. I know from… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
The left can't wait to condemn this country. The left can't wait to tell stories of how we have, I don't know,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife.… — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying… — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
