In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier,… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible.… — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I was an executive at Columbia Pictures for ten years. I was doing great. My career was on the upswing. But, right… — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish… — Lin Shaye Copy Share Image
When you're looking for stories or movies usually the great stories are about people in their 30s or 40s because they've lived… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's… — Stanley R. Jaffe Copy Share Image
Clearly, something I am grateful for today is that my father had the strength to recognize and tell me about his activities… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want.… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake,… — Steve Denning Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment,… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
“I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are… — Upasana Banerjee Copy Share Image
Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters. — Chuck Leavell Copy Share Image
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again.… — Karen Gillan Copy Share Image