I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
This has been the left's technique. The technique is to portray a political enemy of the left as this outrageous caveman or… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to… — Adam Baldwin Copy Share Image
As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image