Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone. — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story. — Euripides Copy Share Image
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life. — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“read stories of restless people who always end up alone and hate being alone because it’s always themselves they can’t stand being… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
