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Stories Quotes by Joss Whedon
- If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene,…
- Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind…
- We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't…
- I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it,…
- There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story…
- I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
- As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a…
- I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there…
- I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of…
- There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and…
- When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys have inhabited this…
- Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it…
More Stories Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe