Quotes About Stories

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that.

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

Yes, I would like to be involved in something that would hopefully be a blockbuster, but I'm interested in seeing new filmmakers telling new stories and to able to help them do that.

All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.

I am very much open to Bollywood and would love to work in great stories.

I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

I revisit stories and see if they are still living and breathing, because if you do a film you live with that story for another year. I can't do a film in six months and scoot.

When I sit down with my team before an engagement, sometimes they are horrified as I say I don't want to read the biographical brief because I prefer to prise information out of people. It becomes like a game. The stories that come out, I could write a book about.

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

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

History is rife with stories of directors who got so obsessed that their films went massively over budget - out of control.

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

Studio execs were like, ''Lord of the Rings!' People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!' No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from successes.

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

The Internet is going to have a bigger impact on content creators than the television ever had. The reason why that's the case is that suddenly you're able to tell stories 24/7 in the home, out of the home, in every room of the home. A television screen can be in your pocket through a smartphone.

I like when characters suffer in stories because that's real life and that's what we all go through.

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.