There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.
Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.
We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say
Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going to happen and everything's going to happen. It's just the gaze. You create your own zone.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.