Geri the Cleaner: [standing outside to door of Al McWiggan's apartment] Is the specimen ready for cleaning?
Barbie: Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!
[Lotso leaves the toys to die in the incinerator at the dump instead of helping them] Lotso: Where's your kid now, Sheriff?
Andy: [taking a last look at his toys before he heads off to college] Thanks, guys.
Frog: Hey buddy, you might wanna keep your mouth shut.
Mr. Potato Head: [to the Peas-in-a-Pod] I told you kids to stay out of my butt!
Jessie: Hogtie the mailman! We gotta get you home before Andy leaves tomorrow!
Mr. Potato Head: You would not believe what I have been through tonight!
[the toys are trapped in the incinerator] Jessie: Buzz! What do we do? [Buzz takes hold of Jessie's hand]
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.
I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survi...
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.
