I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
WORK ON YOUR STORY! Heshe who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!
I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.
When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.
'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.
You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.
With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
A story untold could be the one that kills you.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night.