Stories Quotes - Page 9

• Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.

  Vince Gilligan

  Relief, Letters, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

  Paul Auster

  Historical, Needs, Moments

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.

  Zack Snyder

  People, Important, Iconography

  Source: collider.com

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• Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.

  Zack Snyder

  Moving, Firsts, Linear

  Source: collider.com

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• Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

  David A. Siegel

  Actresses, April, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  Dania Ramirez

  Character, Thinking, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Two, Keys, People

  "(500) Days of Summer". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he's also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He's obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that's rare in directors.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Want, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Thinking, Light

  "(500) Days of Summer - Joseph Gordon-Levitt interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.

  Judd Apatow

  Cutting, Successful, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.

  Judd Apatow

  Character, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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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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• I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Intriguing, Adore

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

  Jonah Hill

  Eye, Directors, Actors

  "Jonah Hill: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Different, Film, Novel

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• Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fiction, World, Elders

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7302, e-artnow

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• In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Mozambique, Monkeys

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Writing, Order

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• The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.

  Irvin Kershner

  People, Humanity, Mind

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• I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Character, Color, Use

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

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• The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Meaningful, Lying, Mind

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Reality, Animal, Games

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