Quotes About Stories

He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.

Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'

People want real-life stories.

Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

I don't like it when religions take it to the point where they discredit all other religions, because how could one sector of people have figured it out and know that that's it? But I do think that there's so much beauty in a lot of the stories or scriptures.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn't come from an organic place.

I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.

I chase after inspiring stories.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'