For any film or any web show, the story dictates everything. If it is a good story, it obviously has good characters… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I… — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
“He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his… — Haidji Copy Share Image
'The Wire' is similar to 'The Walking Dead' in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning… — Seth Gilliam Copy Share Image
One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
“Each of us has a sophisticated system that throws away most of our experiences, keeps only a few choice samples, mixes them… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
After I read the story of 'Dangal' and before the film released, I called director Nitish Tiwari asking him if he had… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
You don't want to fall into the trip of doing a 'Predator' story every week for the rest of our lives just… — Chris Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was raised in this business not to make myself part of the story. I have never wanted to be part of… — Jim Acosta Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time,… — Beck Copy Share Image
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I chose to be part of 'Kaafir' because the story called out to my soul, I need to connect with it. — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Stories matter. The stories we tell about each other. The stories you end up telling yourself.” — J.C. Geiger Copy Share Image
I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else. — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them. Remember that before you judge someone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for… — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens. — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
In the earliest days of Pixar, when we were making 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life,' we all came together as a… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
