Story Quotes · Page 82

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

— Richard D. Zanuck

“The episode related here is based on a true story.”

— Michael Crichton

“Hadithi ya maisha yangu ni yangu. Wewe ni nani kusema hadithi yangu si ya kweli?”

— Enock Maregesi

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

— Stephen King

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story.

— Kanika Dhillon

'West Side Story' is one of the greatest theatrical experiences I've had.

— John Tiffany

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

— John Lasseter

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

— Shia LaBeouf

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

— Lee Unkrich

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

— David Ignatius

What gets us excited about any movie is the social relevance and the character themes and the character journeys and like the…

— Anna Boden

I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired…

— John Hurt

Work begets work. I've always taken the jobs - I've tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the…

— Justin Hartley

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic…

— Laurie Penny

Fred Hoyle was one of the first scientists to become famous on television and radio. It was because he told a dramatic…

— Adam Curtis

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will…

— Barbara Kopple

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people…

— Victor Hugo

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty…

— Dan Jenkins

In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write…

— Billy Crystal

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the…

— Tracy Morgan

We all have a story. It's how you tell it that matters.

— Change Your Conversation

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

— Harry Mathews

Good music tells a story that people relate to.

— Jen Lilley

“Let's change the world... one story at a time.”

— Lindsey Owens

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

— Peter Gallagher

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

— Matt Damon

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

— LaChanze

“the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story”

— David Whyte

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”

— Vann Chow

“We were made to be distracted by life, by story.”

— Donald Miller

It's not about the picture being taken.. it's about the story that comes with it.

— LostInTears

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

— Michelle Chamuel

“There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the cold hard truth.”

— Scottish Proverb

“We tell stories because we’re broken creatures hungering for redemption,”

— Mike Cosper