- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.
- Morbid
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
- Keyboard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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- Nov 07, 2020