At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the ‘what if – what then’ approach to...

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

With the right mindset, you can turn a painful downfall into a setup for a great success story.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it’s a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don’t exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

When story and behavior are consistent, we relax; when story and behavior are inconsistent, we get tense. We have a deep psychological need for our stories and behaviors to be consistent. We need to be...

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don’t believe they are; it’s a technique to tell a story.

Nema novih priča. Svaka priča je stara, već poznata i bezroj puta ponovljena. Kao što se svaki život kreće od rođenja do smrti, tako se i svaka priča kreće od početka do kraja. Čak i...

That story you’re scared to share — that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.

I love involving actors at all levels – and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are...

If you end your story, it’s a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don’t, it belongs to anyone’s imagination. It stays alive forever.

Life’s like the piano and the violin, it’s about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony.

As an actor, you’re lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit...

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did… used to come to my parents’ house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years...

I’ve got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton – him and Tupac. They were shooting the second ‘California Love’ video. My pops had seen...

Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

I like documentaries because there’s nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren’t just right. It’s about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that...

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

When you’re drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.’ The Commandant said it for me.’Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every...

… If we don’t tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won’t believe it.

It doesn’t matter if it’s black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it’s very good for cinema.

Am not great, but being the story of every whisper is just the greatest.

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer – doesn’t use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself,”Tar; Spanish onions; kerosene oil; wet raincoats; crushed laurel-leaves; rubber burning; lace-curtains being washed–No, my mistake,...

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from...

We are drawn uncontrollably to each other and have no power to resist, only the tremendous desire to experience everything in its most intense form.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Wow, you are super drunk.

official” bard were spent? Perhaps he would decide to retire in a lighthouse. For, surely, no place would be more fitting for the hero emeritus. He would gaze upon the glorious sea in recollection…guiding others...

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

It’s about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it’s Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it’s going to be, ‘Storyteller.’

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I’m g-lyn and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across lightly texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within...

In our story logic which we’re making up, if we’re saying he’s alive, then like a quadriplegic who’s in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can’t move his arms. If he...

It’s very hard when you’re doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it was dying to come out on paper. It was begging of...

I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary...

Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book — a book...

I don’t believe in nudity for nudity’s sake, but it’s really beautiful when it’s done well, when it’s within a story. I’m very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity...

Physics is the story of time, with everything or nothing.

En mi juventud me enseñaron que en el corazón de cada historia se esconde una semilla de realidad” -Bastet

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don’t so much focus on what has...

When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn’t over yet. Our story may have come to a close,...