- Film
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- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- Fallible
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- Nov 07, 2020
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
- Foreshadowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
- Pitch
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to be the authors of their own life story.
- Guaranteeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.
- Good Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020