You open a section of ‘The New York Times,’ and there’s a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there’s an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Most of the things I’ve had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don’t have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don’t feel like I’ve licked the story enough. – Jonathan Mostow
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book. – Leslie Banks
If I’m successful in fooling a wire service, I don’t really have to do anything else to promote the story. – Joey Skaggs
‘Baby Boy’ is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we’re going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don’t know where we’re going to take it. – John Singleton
Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America. – Louis Theroux
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told. – Kelly Jones
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. – Jon Ronson
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky. – Kate Christensen
I’m completely obsessed with Andrew Smith’s ‘Winger.’ A great, hilarious, and moving story. – John Corey Whaley
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. – James Lee Burke
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I’ve tried to incorporate both of those things – pure emotion and being more visual – into my writing. – Lisa See
‘Straight Outta Compton’ is not a story we didn’t know about or anything like that, but it’s just something that resonated really well… It had no choice but to explode. – Jason Mitchell
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. – Karen Joy Fowler
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. – James Gunn
Yes, you know Luke Skywalker isn’t going to die in issue #3. But that doesn’t mean you’ve seen every Luke Skywalker story there is to tell. – Jason Aaron
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell. – Keith Richards
As an actor, I’m my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, it’s such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else. – Kara Hayward
The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren’t fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that’s to be avoided at all costs. – Jennifer Beals
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news. – Joanne Froggatt
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that’s where the story begins. – J. R. Celski
