["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story. — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
“The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades” — Kennedy Vega Copy Share Image
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
“retelling ought to prove formative, nurturing, stabilizing, delightful.26” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I couldn't let you sacrifice yourself for me." "Its not a sacrifice. My ambition has just changed.” — Mariah Marsden Copy Share Image
If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m always amazed by how readily people judge the right and wrong of things they know only from the outside. Honestly, it… — David Clawson Copy Share Image
“The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes… — Anne Boyd Rioux Copy Share Image
You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks,” he said. “I salute you,… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“Sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, I wondered if Peter’s assurances that I would never grow up were only… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“One of us will just have to stay at the cottage to keep an eye on her.' [...] Let's see if Widow… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The embroidery came later, in the retelling, as the story was told again and again by the men, taking on its own… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world” — Kennedy Vega Copy Share Image
“She's bewitched you! What good could she do us?" "Well, now... We could do some good for her .” — Mariah Marsden Copy Share Image
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.” — Rachel L. Demeter Copy Share Image
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image