Quotes About Story

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

It seems, in many ways, I am a living, breathing country song, and I know what I sing.

'Udta Punjab' has a brilliant script.

For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

The challenge of election broadcasting is to stick to the story and line.

I'd actually love to play Sonny in 'Dog Day Afternoon' now that it's being adapted for Broadway. People don't talk about that movie that much, but it's really a beautiful gay love story.

'Soorma' was made on a budget of 22 core and we don't expect it to do a 100 crore business, but it has definitely earned respectable numbers. It's a more performance heavy film with a great story and content.

'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'

If I can have a career based on playing roles that are a challenge and tell an important story, and for no alternative reason, then I have succeeded.

Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist, I totally understand. But it meant that my many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story. I'm super grateful that it happened, but it left me feeling like I never got to be a full human in the experience.

Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

I'm actually an American success story.

I think I am going to be part of a success story at Lazio.

Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.