Quotes About Stories

I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.

I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media.

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.

I have a complaint with regressive shows. The kind of stories I want to be a part of are not happening. I can't underutilise myself.

Indian cinema has completed 100 years. How many new stories can you bring every time? It's not possible.

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.

I've been drawn to sports stories that have an emotional component to it. I'm happy to get a chance to tell a few.

I felt like we had stories about family loyalty; I didn't feel like we had stories about what to do when you felt that loyalty to your family was in conflict with loyalty to yourself.

I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.

People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

I bring forward stories from the lives of everyday Americans: those whose path hasn't been set out on easy street or who haven't been given it all, those who are actually forging ahead because of their own personal resources, their moxie, their survival instincts.