New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.
I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.
Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
