Good story Quotes · Page 7

My sensibility is such that I automatically get drawn to films that have a good story, good characterization.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct…

— Steven Spielberg

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,…

— Valerie June

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and…

— Stephen King

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

— Joshuah Bearman

“A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn’t even…

— F.S. Michaels

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects,…

— John Hawkes

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a…

— Robert McKee

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve.…

— Barry Ritholtz

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin…

— Harrison Ford

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in…

— Soledad O'Brien

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good…

— Kenneth Edmonds

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the…

— Tim Cahill

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture…

— Spike Lee

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else…

— JD Era

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

— William Bennett

A good story is always you doing something wrong, you know? That's why nice people are so damn boring. I mean, they're…

— Bill Burr

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

— Ben Stein

I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

I did 'Padman' not only because of its social message. I did it because it was a good story.

— Radhika Apte

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

— Nick Clegg

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also,…

— Jack Handey

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

— Donald Miller

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well.…

— Dwayne Johnson

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

— Laura Innes

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

— Liu Cixin

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't…

— Julie Taymor

I am the old story. L'histoire ancienne. But an old story can still be a good story, no?

— Anna Karina

I'd rather have a small part in a big film or good story than do a solo film just for the sake…

— Sidharth Malhotra

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

— Ian Rankin

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we…

— Sigourney Weaver

“I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.”

— Patricia Finney

If it's a good story or if it's a character I want to act in, I end up wanting to do it.

— Kwak Dong-yeon

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

— John Boyega

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

— Alma Alexander

“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape…

— Lisa Wingate

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,…

— Hilary Mantel