Quotes About Stories

I wanted the audience to write stories and then read them out if they wanted to. It's always the best part of the show because people are so imaginative.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don't hear any real stories. I don't think we ever had the chance to really tell our side.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

There are only a few stories of Krishna that are popular. His exploits with the gopikas, for example. But not many understand the spiritual implications of such events.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.

As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.

As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about what this character would say or do helps me creatively.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

In fact, I don't watch any fiction shows.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

I'd like for 'Facts of Life' to include more stories about Mrs. Garrett. But I wouldn't want to do a spin-off built around her.

I think sports stories are increasingly part of the diet of most important stories in the country.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.

I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more opportunity.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.