Quotes About Story

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

I needed to have a journey of my own to tell my son tomorrow. To even discuss my journey with my family, I have to set an example.

I chose to be part of 'Kaafir' because the story called out to my soul, I need to connect with it.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

Mixed martial arts, UFC, or what have you, I don't think it has anything to do with rankings. It doesn't have to do with 'this guy beat this guy so he deserves a title shot.' It might be like that every once in a while, but this is entertainment and the two biggest names - the best story.

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.