Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

Dexter Fletcher

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

Jesse Eisenberg

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

James Gunn

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

John Goodman

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Josh Hutcherson

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Jim Lehrer

I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.

Naya Rivera

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

Brit Marling

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

David Antin

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

Henry Louis Gates

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Juliette Binoche

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

Rose Tremain

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Salma Hayek

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Stephen Sondheim

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

Tia Carrere

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Chuck Palahniuk

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

Ezekiel Emanuel

[marveling at a Christmas gift he just opened] Mr. Parker: A can of Simoniz!

A Christmas Story

Melvin Udall: You like sad stories? Wanna hear mine?

As Good as It Gets

Pauline Parker: It's a three act story with a tragic end.

Heavenly Creatures