There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Popular Monster' is the voice inside my head, hoping you will listen. It's the story of a hero that's been falsely accused… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
“All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
For every Tesla or Uber, there's a Valeant Pharmaceuticals or Theranos - two story stocks that seduced an astounding array of prominent… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why… — Jeff Zucker Copy Share Image
My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
'Not A Love Story' is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read… — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain… — E. Hoffman Price Copy Share Image
2021 is my 40th year working in the industry and I can't think of a better way to celebrate than directing 'Holding.'… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
If you were to turn on the TV in 1986, '87, you wouldn't see anybody having, I guess, a low-to-middle-income person of… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
Unlike in the past, when acting in parallel cinema entailed hitting film festival circuits even not fully comprehending the story thread at… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
What I feel responsible for is, if my name is on a comic, I want it to be the best-written comic that… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
When you watch the top guys, you know there will be no drama all match. They're gonna wipe their face between points,… — Patrick Mouratoglou Copy Share Image
“A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting,… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
There are many different ways of telling an interactive story, I think. I don't think there's a right one and a wrong… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too,… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for… — Angelos Postecoglou Copy Share Image
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
“You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
