In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I think a good story, well told is a good story, well told, whether you're watching the episodes all in a row… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do -… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story. — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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