I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a… — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I got home from work today and took like a one hundred hour nap. No you did not. You'd be very sick… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning.… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic.… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation -… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just… — Matt Passmore Copy Share Image
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication.… — Christopher Tin Copy Share Image
If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them.… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
