Action Quote by David Mamet

What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

— Joss Whedon

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to…

— Peter Hedges

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

— Anonymous

There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the whole thing…

— Krystal Ball

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

— Patrick Wilson

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of…

— Ken Follett

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

— Robert Redford

The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you…

— George V. Higgins

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

— Tyler Hoechlin

I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is so comically…

— Justin Roiland

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the…

— Sebastian Stan