Quotes About Story

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

It wasn't until 'Double Take' that I was in a movie as the leading man, in a character that was more straight and less broad than the other character, and where the story is really about him.

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story. Life feels like what my show feels like: chaotic and strange and disconnected.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'

the landscape tells - or rather is - a story. It enfolds the lives and times of predecessors who, over the generations, have moved around in it and played their part in its formation. To perceive the landscape is therefore to carry out an act of remembrance, and remembering is not so much a matter of calling up an internal image, stored in the mind, as of engaging perpetually with the environment that is itself pregnant with the past

The facts miss the heart of the matter; to give us a clear picture, the facts need a vehicle, the anecdote

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

the story, and the conviction it carries, are part of the teller's way of organizing his own life.

In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.

Religion is fable. Yes, a story! Poetic. Universal. And I would start in about faith, which by its very nature can never be proven, and that the foundational narratives of most religious

News accounts of the riot would give rise to a story that still lives, that the "Fighting Irish" nickname was forever set by the clash of Notre Dame against the Ku Klux Klan on May 17, 1924.

los libros que recomienda para cultivar la capacidad de negociar es en realidad un libro infantil que se lee en diez minutos: Sopa de Piedras, de Marcia Brown.

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story by Joel ben Izzy.