I had so much fun playing songs from ‘Based On A True Story…’ and getting to see the crowd’s reaction to those songs was unforgettable. – Blake Shelton
The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story. – Colleen Atwood
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people’s defenses. – Chuck Palahniuk
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn’t want to narrate something, I didn’t want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing. – Abbas Kiarostami
I didn’t follow the whole ‘X-Men’ story because it got too complicated. I’d pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on. – Aaron Stanford
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
’50/50′ is a comedy. I shouldn’t say it’s a buddy comedy because it’s not farcical, and it’s based on a true story, but it’s viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour. – Bryce Dallas Howard
Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it’s the wrong story, and then things don’t work. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I’m a huge believer in story being this invisible scaffolding that no one ever recognizes or realizes is actually making the audience engaged in what’s going on. There is no formula for it. – Alan Yang
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, ‘Oh, well, that’s her story.’ We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It’s not my province; it’s ours. These questions concern us all. – Anne Michaels
Once I’m given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don’t have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas. – Brian Selznick
I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you’ve heard my side. – Bob Kane
I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. – Alison Owen
’21 Grams’ is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected – literally, with the heart. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I’ve always loved the wild rumpus in ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages. – Brian Selznick
There really isn’t a story that you can’t tell inside of it. It’s very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you’re not at all limited. – Aaron Sorkin
There’s always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what’s going to happen. You don’t know the story, but you know what they do. – Albert Brooks
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses – and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story. – Adriana Trigiani
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I’d give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. – Adam Faith
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman
So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I’m a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it. – Aarti Sequeira
It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. – Aaliyah
