If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this.
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.
I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.
It wasn't a love story. " -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk. " -Tar
I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.
You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
It's important for us to tell our stories.
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
