TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It’s one of the oldest urges in mankind. It’s a way of stalling death.
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.
What’s the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
What are stories for if we don’t learn from them?
But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn’t so sure God supplied parachutes.
Whenever there’s a camera around, a video or film camera, it’s a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that’s more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They’re very powerful figures in my life.
Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.
I remember that – you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.