Good Story Quotes - Page 11

• Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Motivational, Giving, Directors

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• I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Stories, Body, Want

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• It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

  Henry Bromell

  Thinking, People, Stories

  "Rubicon executive producer Henry Bromell". Interview With Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

  James Dashner

  Real, Interesting, Stories

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• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Past, Stories, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Character, Different, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Fun, Trying, Stories

  "Garret Dillahunt Talks About the Challenge and Heightened Language of TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Real, Writing, Character

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• I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Stories, Emotion

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• When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

  Sharon Creech

  Writing, Stories, Want

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• My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

  Beau Bridges

  Character, Roles, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.

  Mark Canton

  Simple, Stories, Matter

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• You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

  Jason Patric

  Passion, People, Dollars

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• There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Stories, Scripts, Found

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• I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Stories, Died

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Dirt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

  Blackie

  Ideas, People, Stories

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• What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.

  H. L. Mencken

  Clever, Eye, Psych

  The American Mercury Magazine, p. 136, May 1933.

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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Jobs, Doe, Stories

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• I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.

  Joss Whedon

  Regret, Firefly, Animal

  "Can a failed TV show spawn a successful film?". www.today.com. September 27, 2005.

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• A good story never dies.

  Roberta Williams

  Stories, Dies

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• I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Stories, Speak

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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• If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Stories, Conflict

  "Q&A with Author Donald Miller". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. November 20, 2009.

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