I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my… — Pamela Love 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
Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
So, first, I wanted to be a part of the project because I thought it was an important story to tell. On… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man.… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . "… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression.… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
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