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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to… — Daryl Wein Copy Share Image
