- Nov 07, 2020
Story Quotes
Every story is worth telling well.
One line here is about recognizing a story too rarely told, another about a lasting preference for tales of the underdog and survival. For similar reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Atari is a very sad story.
- New York
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I'm a New York story.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.
- End
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Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.
- New
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I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
- Make
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The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
- Hammerstein
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
- Perspective
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Telling a story inherently has bias because of perspective and the way the story is told.
- Good
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