The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.
I’m interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
What I do know is that with a celebrity’s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ’story.
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
I like having my own story remain my story.
History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I’ve inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue...
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
In my stories, whenever there’s somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that’s me!
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?