Quotes About Story

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

2021 is my 40th year working in the industry and I can't think of a better way to celebrate than directing 'Holding.' It's a beautiful piece of writing with a great story and fantastic, full-bodied characters.

When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my attention for, like, the length of what I'll be working on.

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.

Tiggers don't like honey.

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

'Kangal Marapathilai' is an off-beat story and I am hopeful of getting a few awards after the movie.

Hopefully, my story will help change people's lives.

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

If you have to make a story in 10 rupees or you know that at this stage you can get only 10 rupees then you cut down on your expenses. But when one has made four-five films one likes to broaden the horizons.

Alligator Loki, who knows what the alligator's story could be? That was always fun - the debate about whether it's a Loki, or if it's just an alligator with horns on its head. I think he is a Loki.

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

A really good horror film has a story.

Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.

How many people get to say a '30 for 30' is being made about them?

We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol... The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn't really matter how many times they do it.

When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.

'Modern Family' is unique in that it's telling the story of three different families, which is a huge amount of characters to service.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

Squid Game' is a story about human nature that most people can already relate to, yet everything is communicated through easy-to-follow childhood games.