I’ve been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn’t told very often. – Wentworth Miller
I don’t look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That’s how I look at it. – Tony DiTerlizzi
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you’re in a sales position, if you’re in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. – Tate Taylor
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s what I love. – Spike Lee
There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there’s no proper age to start telling them. – Xavier Dolan
In the 40 years since ‘The Amityville Horror’, dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough – special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough – that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization’s loyalty to the core story. – Stephen Graham Jones
I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell. – Sherilyn Fenn
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that’s the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that’s the point. – Stephen Sondheim
I never fixed a story. I didn’t make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it. – Tom T. Hall
I’m interested in telling the character’s story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise. – Sarah Paulson
If the main character’s not in jeopardy – physical, psychological, emotional, whatever – then you don’t have any tension, and you don’t have a story. – Stephen Graham Jones
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I’m familiar with. I don’t write stories about the nineteenth century. – Satyajit Ray
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. – Steve Buscemi
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story? – Simon Callow
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he’s a marvelous man. – Vincente Minnelli
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn’t really count as narrative. – Tim Vine
Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even – they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds. – Susan Vreeland
Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address. – Steve Breen
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved. – Tabitha Soren
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ. – Timothy Radcliffe
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction. – William Shatner
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages. – Zadie Smith
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people. – Tabitha Soren
