- 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
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.
- Nov 07, 2020