Quotes About Time

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see how 'Time' and 'Newsweek' would handle 9/11. And I was basically pretty disappointed to see that they had chosen to show the photo we'd already seen a million times, which was basically the moment of impact.

The Wyatt Family was a very special thing. The 3 of us came together at a perfect time. It was a perfect storm, and that rivalry with The Shield in 2014-2015 was a magical time.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I am the old story. L'histoire ancienne. But an old story can still be a good story, no?

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

The action of 'Horse Soldiers' is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare - but with a lot of moxie.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

Honestly, I'm the worst storyteller ever. Like, I just take so long.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.

We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it going to be on television? Is it print? And now the canvas is mobile. But what we really need to think about is the context. The context is where and when the person is consuming it - location, time of day.

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

I've never been one to jump into fitness straight after having a baby. I always say if you grow it for nine months it should take that time at least to go back to normal.

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.