Bathroom Quote by Jim Toomey

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke

I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that, hey, nobody…

— Stephen Hillenburg

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that…

— Anton Corbijn

I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fisherman caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then…

— Jack Handey

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze,…

— Christopher Nolan

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And…

— Noah Baumbach

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

— Stephen Sondheim

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which…

— Neil Gaiman

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that…

— Jim McKay

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale