Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Sondheim

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Peter Kreeft

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Peter Carey

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

Piers Anthony

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Philip Pullman

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Philip Pullman

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

Philip Pullman

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he's made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it's very hard to ignore what he's done to them.I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Philip Pullman

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Rachel Cohn

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

Q-Tip

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Sebastiao Salgado

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

Si Robertson

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Shelley Hennig

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

Seymour Hersh

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place...

Seth

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Sean Taylor

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Lawrence Block

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

Laura Riding

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Val McDermid

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

Val Kilmer

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Tucker Max

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them