Stories Quotes - Page 17

• You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

  David Shore

  Real, Heart, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fire, People, Twists

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

  Rian Johnson

  News Stories, Buttons, Pleasure

  Source: collider.com

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• Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

  Anton Corbijn

  Character, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think directors like, and I love making movies, so I found something that I'm good at and I'm really happy doing.

  John Orloff

  Writing, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

  Lana Del Rey

  Reading, Tabloids, Nine

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

  Drake Doremus

  Thinking, Land, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.

  Tim Burton

  Book, Trying, Way

  "Tim Burton Talks FRANKENWEENIE, BEETLEJUICE 2, BIG EYES and a PINOCCHIO Film with Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Numbers, Conflict, Novel

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans.

  Graham King

  Icons, Important, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

  Bootsy Collins

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trying, Novel, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

  Negash Ali

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Beautiful, Spring, Real

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• As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

  James Elkins

  Oil, Doe, Painting

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, Real, Views

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• As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of dead trees arise. I guess it's that each one seems to have a story of its own, representing many years of living through everything that nature could throw at them.

  Cory Trepanier

  Years, Tree, Looks

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• The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

  ZZ Packer

  Cutting, Editing, Issues

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• Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.

  Billy Cannon

  Perfect, Pathways, Depth

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• I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?

  Homaro Cantu

  Conspiracy

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• Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

  Hugh Howey

  Hero, Winning, Bullshit

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• A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

  DJ Patil

  Unique, Data, Skills

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• I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.

  Nikki Gil

  Letting Go, Writing, Once Upon A Time

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