Quotes About Stories

We need new stories, but I am looking forward to 'The Dark Crystal'.

I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

I want to do movies with great stories. The content should be strong.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.

I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Big stories need human stakes.