Quotes About Stories

I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and I link furiously, merrily hurdling over holes, gaps, and secrets. Nevertheless, I try to remind myself that the holes are there. They are always there, not only in the lives of others but in my own life as well.

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.

Augustine's insight that emotion dims in memory, however, is overwhelmingly true of our episodic memories. The cooling of the emotions that belong to such recollections is built into the nature of this kind of memory, because it is quickly turned into narrative. The raw affective material of memories is restructured and then told as stories from a remove.

My senses remained on high alert, and even thinking back on that time makes me feel giddy. I could never have a similar experience now. I have too much behind me, too many references, stories, too many years of thoughts.

Seeing is flux," he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.