Stories Quote by Neil LaBute Download Open image “I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.” — Neil LaBute ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interested Telling Stories Story Interested Telling Watching Wanted Wanted Tell Watching
I look for a great story. One that I would like to watch, or tell, or that I think needs to be told, because… — Mandip Gill Copy Share Image
For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet, but I… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story. — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life. — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator,… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change.… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there? — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
