Good Story Quotes - Page 10

• As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

  Lin Shaye

  Real, Opportunity, Stories

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• There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Feel Good, Stories

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Character, Personality

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• Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

  Donald Miller

  Ambition, Cutting, Stories

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2015

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• I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

  Evan Daugherty

  Simple, People, Twists

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.

  Ray Liotta

  Guy, Directors, Stories

  "Ray Liotta Talks THE SON OF NO ONE, THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and COGAN’S TRADE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2011.

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• When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.

  Jennifer Phang

  Sweet, Fun, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

  Tom Robinson

  Responsibility, Thinking, Stories

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• I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

  John Irving

  Believe, Character, Plot

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.

  Julie Klassen

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Believe

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• In my opinion, visual effects are great when it compliments a good story, and action is great when it compliments a good story, but just to have them for the sake of having them, it gets a little boring, especially if you're talking a TV series. At least with a movie that's an hour and a half to two hours, you see it and you're impressed, and then you're out. With a series, if it's only that, week after week after week, there's nothing there to bring you back. You have to get invested in the characters and care about them and want to follow them.

  Drew Roy

  Character, Talking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

  Michiel Huisman

  Passion, Two, Long

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

  Shari Wiedmann

  Tired, Thinking, People

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.

  Teryl Rothery

  People, Laughing, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• (I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.

  Drew Waters

  Struggle, People, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.

  Drew Waters

  Sex, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

  Patrick Wilson

  Reality, Long, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

  Henry James

  Ideas, Stories, Very Good

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

  Uzo Aduba

  Character, Voice, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• A good story needs only a good storyteller.

  Richard Bausch

  Needs, Stories, Storyteller

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• The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

  Evan Esar

  Stories, Way, Facts

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• ...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

  Stephen King

  Book, Literary Merit, Stories

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• An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Stories, May, Individual

  "Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence". www.nytimes.com. October 19, 2011.

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