Quotes About Story

You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?'

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.

I look for roles that are a good story for me as an actress and what I think will grow me as an actress and person. I also just really enjoy working with people who are passionate about what they do.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

Without a good story, a franchise won't work.

Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

It's good, sound business to treat all the teachers fairly, and I think it's a good story to tell.

I won't say no to projects I believe in if there's a good story there.

A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

I aspire to be a part of a good story, because then, the actor will automatically shine through.

If a star film does not have a good story, it will not run. This will make stars choose good scripts consciously.

A good film is always a good film and a good story is always a good story.

Why should I do a movie for dance? I can always do it on stage, and I'm doing it. However, if such a film with a good story comes my way, then I might probably do it.

The Malayali audience, which appreciates a good story or experiment, is our strength. They don't ask who is the star of a new film, they ask who is the director and writer.

I like to be part of films that have a good story, good characters.

If the director has a story, he will go directly to the hero. If I have a big hero in hand today, any big banner or corporate will come to me. But if I say I have a good story, they will ask if I have a hero.

If there is a good story, I will take it up.

The audience is expecting good work from me. They want me to do roles that are unique and important in the story. So, I am trying to focus on different characters to play. I am doing the kind of films which are completely different from each other.

My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.

Nothing to say. I used to be a ghostwriter for a publisher.' 'Medieval stuff?' 'Eighty-page love stories. You have this guy, untrustworthy but good in bed, and this girl, radiant but innocent. In the end they fall madly in love and it's incredibly boring. The story doesn't say when they split up.' 'Of course not,' said Mathias

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all