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Quotes About Story

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
~ Dan Scanlon
We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is taken up by a mural of the end of Toy Story 3.
~ Nish Kumar
You know, I loved 'Toy Story.' It's a great movie, but it has some pretty serious drama.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I'd like to believe we know the difference between those two things. The movies that work, work when there is a story there that you can take the toy out of, but when you put the toy in, it becomes an even more amazing experience for whatever reason.
~ Alex Kurtzman
I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with.
~ Peter Jackson
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
~ Anita Desai
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
~ Carlisle Floyd
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I have an obsession with making an album rather than a collection of tracks. For me it's like making a film - it's the perfect length of time to tell a story.
~ Jon Hopkins
We all have a story, and I wouldn't trade my story for anything.
~ Tori Bowie
It was a lovely story that I finished my career with Kobe, with somebody who I was traded for. I have a lot of respect for the guy. I think he's definitely, by far, the best talent that I ever, ever played with.
~ Vlade Divac
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.
~ Rob Sheffield
I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.
~ Lin Shaye
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
~ Satish Kumar
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
~ Sharon Olds
The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.
~ Stephen Coonts
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.
~ Sarah Dessen
When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.
~ Jeremy Gutsche
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
~ Priscilla Presley
My life and career is my own adventure.
~ Dario Argento
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
~ Saul Williams
Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~ Douglas Hyde
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
~ Roberto Calasso
God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.
~ Steven Curtis Chapman