While most of the things you’ve worried about have never happened, it’s a different story with the things you haven’t worried about. They are the ones that happen. – Ruth Rendell
Whenever you’re telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there’s a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right. – Tom McCarthy
What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don’t let that get in the way of a good story. – Stephen Bannon
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It’s not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around. – Wolf Blitzer
It doesn’t matter if it’s black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it’s very good for cinema. – Thomas Langmann
I wouldn’t do a project if it weren’t a story I wanted to tell. That’s rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you’re working on a story that you enjoy telling. – Stephen Schwartz
President Clinton is one of the dominant figures on the global stage. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell. – Sonny Mehta
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. – Stephen Sondheim
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn’t gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview. – Victor LaValle
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We’re meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional. – Stacy Schiff
I’d like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that’s why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work. – Scott Speedman
In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. – Theresa Breslin
I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller. – Waris Ahluwalia
There’s no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story. – Saoirse Ronan
The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation. – Stan Freberg
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. – Stephen Gardiner
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. – Steve Buscemi
I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it’s convenient to the story. I’d never do that. That’s cheating. – Simon Toyne
You can’t write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of ‘Cuckoo’s Nest.’ – Victor LaValle
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen. – Taylor Hackford
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. – Seth Gordon
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film ‘This is a true story’. – Stephen Frears
What we call ‘the news’ always has tried to tell a story, and it’s always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling. – Steve Erickson
