--- title: "17 Movie Story Quotes by 17 authors" description: "Browse 17 Movie Story quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Movie Story sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/jonathan-mostow-64407_audience_the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have_2110657.jpg" --- > [The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-mostow/the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have-to-keep-charging-forward-and/) [Jonathan Mostow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-mostow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/jonathan-mostow-64407_audience_the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have_2110657.jpg) > [A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zal-batmanglij/a-novel-is-both-a-story-and-a-piece-of-writing-a-movie-is-a-story-and/) [Zal Batmanglij](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zal-batmanglij/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9d/zal-batmanglij-4753_books_a-novel-is-both-a-story-and-a-piece-of-w_1974279.jpg) > [A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-darabont/a-director-shouldn-t-get-in-the-way-of-the-movie-the-story-should/) [Frank Darabont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-darabont/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/frank-darabont-27094_cinema_a-director-shouldn-t-get-in-the-way-of-t_65155.jpg) > [When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandre-aja/when-i-approach-a-story-or-movie-the-story-is-the-most-important-thing/) [Alexandre Aja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandre-aja/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/alexandre-aja-27536_approach_when-i-approach-a-story-or-movie-the-sto_477171.jpg) > [I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-night-shyamalan/i-think-i-take-what-you-might-call-a-b-movie-story-deal-with-b-movie/) [M. Night Shyamalan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-night-shyamalan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/m-night-shyamalan-7111_actors_i-think-i-take-what-you-might-call-a-b-m_2520596.jpg) > [In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uwe-boll/in-the-name-of-the-king-is-the-right-title-to-be-honest-i-don-t-know/) [Uwe Boll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uwe-boll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/uwe-boll-13543_being-honest_in-the-name-of-the-king-is-the-right-tit_3172645.png) > [In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philippe-falardeau/in-the-private-system-and-the-private-schools-the-principal-is-pretty/) [Philippe Falardeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philippe-falardeau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/philippe-falardeau-11523_courses_in-the-private-system-and-the-private-sc_1884296.jpg) > [(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-gardner/the-movie-is-the-story-of-my-life-but-it-s-not-about-me-it-s-about/) [Chris Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-gardner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/chris-gardner-3822_bigs_the-movie-is-the-story-of-my-life-but-it_248864.png) > [It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-langmann/it-doesn-t-matter-if-it-s-black-and-white-if-a-movie-has-a-story-that/) [Thomas Langmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-langmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/thomas-langmann-48780_black_it-doesn-t-matter-if-it-s-black-and-whit_932826.jpg) > [Whether it is not cruelty: Relate to the a good movie story you Always remember, But the imaginative name of the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mak-786/whether-it-is-not-cruelty-relate-to-the-a-good-movie-story-you-always/) Mak\_786 [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55a/mak-786-30_movie_whether-it-is-not-cruelty-relate-to-the_1372037.jpg) > [When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-dumont/when-you-make-movies-you-have-to-be-preoccupied-with-the-social/) [Bruno Dumont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-dumont/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/bruno-dumont-16688_film_when-you-make-movies-you-have-to-be-preo_528484.jpg) > [I was Gator in Jungle Fever, and Chris Rock played Pookie, and those showed two very different dynamics of what crackheads were.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-l-jackson/i-was-gator-in-jungle-fever-and-chris-rock-played-pookie-and-those/) [Samuel L. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-l-jackson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ce/samuel-l-jackson-3595_brother_i-was-gator-in-jungle-fever-and-chris-ro_3089183.jpg) > [That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-farmer/that-s-where-the-inspiration-was-and-so-the-more-that-you-rewrite-and/) [Todd Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-farmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/todd-farmer-19376_changed_that-s-where-the-inspiration-was-and-so_2561104.jpg) > [The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celine-sciamma/the-movie-not-only-about-what-story-you-re-telling-and-who-you-re/) [Celine Sciamma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celine-sciamma/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/celine-sciamma-9187_artistic_the-movie-not-only-about-what-story-you_1796400.jpg) > [It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yossi-ghinsberg/it-was-like-a-dream-come-true-for-me-when-you-write-the-book-it-s/) [Yossi Ghinsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yossi-ghinsberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/yossi-ghinsberg-14806_book_it-was-like-a-dream-come-true-for-me-whe_1895872.png) > [When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dolph-lundgren/when-you-re-directing-you-re-kind-of-interested-in-the-movie-and-the/) [Dolph Lundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dolph-lundgren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/dolph-lundgren-7935_cameras_when-you-re-directing-you-re-kind-of-int_925680.png) > [The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-aselton/the-freebie-cost-virtually-nothing-we-funded-the-movie-ourselves/) [Katie Aselton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-aselton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c26/katie-aselton-9957_budgets_the-freebie-cost-virtually-nothing-we-fu_1192119.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/movie-story/#itemlist", "name": "Movie Story Quotes", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Mostow" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-mostow/the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have-to-keep-charging-forward-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/jonathan-mostow-64407_audience_the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have_2110657.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/jonathan-mostow-64407_audience_the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have_2110657.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/jonathan-mostow-64407_audience_the-nature-of-a-movie-story-is-you-have_2110657.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.” — Jonathan Mostow", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. 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