You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can,… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted… — Carlos Cuaron Copy Share Image
I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give… — David Antin Copy Share Image
So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles.… — Bernard Stiegler Copy Share Image
I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me),… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
![“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/ang-lee-2496_core_making-this-movie-as-a-period-piece-abou_796900.jpg)
