Ad un certo punto della vita non è la speranza l’ultima a morire, ma il morire è l’ultima speranza.

If I didn’t get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn’t significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn’t want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing...

Sometimes, when you’re deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-white,...

You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger’s life, and then they’re content.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it’s got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about...

Some people don’t want to hurt your feelings.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you’re missing the whole point of your humanity.

The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

My car is full of random stains.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It’s emotional, theatrical and technical. It’s everything.

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you...

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it’s a very different movie.

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible...

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

I’m trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people’s minds off their troubles.

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to...

I’d say I’m the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it...

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I...

All Quiet on the Western Front.

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to ‘The New Yorker.’

You can tell your story any way you damn well please.Its your solo.

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul,...

It’s so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we...

‘Phantom’ was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there’s one voice from the past that’s also...

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what’s really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as...

I want to make sure people know I don’t think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

Sometimes it’s not just your favorite song. It’s your untold story.

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

I wouldn’t compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don’t feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people’s story. I don’t...

It’s the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Only in England would ‘professor gets divorced and remarried’ be a story.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won’t come out that way – it’ll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don’t really control...

The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that has actually brought out the Latinos. Look at Idaho. I actually ran against...

No one likes incomplete story, so does the God 🙂

With a little heartache; Gone with the time, Are certain memories, Intricately designed.To call & narrate A story of blissful sunshine.

When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the...

Every heart has a story to tell. Some dreams have wings, some are torn at the seams and just sit there on the shelf. If you were to walk in my shoes, you would see...

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then...