Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

Daryl Hannah

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

Dave Holland

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Doris Lessing

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry. So be passionate and write a great story.

Debasish Mridha

You're my story, you're my poetry, you're my flower you're my deep driving desire.

Debasish Mridha

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

Jean Dujardin

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

Jeffery Deaver

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

Julie Delpy

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

Junot Diaz

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Jennifer Egan

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Jesse Eisenberg

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

James Gray

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

John Geddes

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Jack Horner

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

Juliana Hatfield

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.

Johnny Kidd

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

Janna Levin

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

John Lasseter

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

Jenna McCarthy

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

Pamela Anderson

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

Corin Nemec