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Romance is all about making a story out of our love -- Joey Comeau
I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research. -- Ryan Coogler
People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened. -- Carl Sandburg
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom. -- Jim Toomey
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. -- Tom Hanks
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story. -- Errol Morris
As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story. -- Matthew Lewis
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. -- Leslie Cockburn
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. -- Todd Solondz
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money. -- J. A. Konrath
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. -- Matt Groening
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. -- Kim Ji-woon
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. -- John Francis
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson. -- Christina Ricci
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting. -- Dan Millman
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon. -- Aimee Bender
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. -- Hooman Majd
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me. -- Kim Jee-woon
I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved. -- Della Reese
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. -- Marla Maples
I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it. -- Kerry Greenwood
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime. -- Nancy Grace
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do. -- A. S. Byatt
All I want is the same opportunities as the filmmakers I grew up admiring. But you know, I've had lots of amazing opportunities to do the movies I wanted to do. If I could write my future, I'd want to keep making character-based films that can make use of my voice as a filmmaker. -- Tim Story
You can start making up any kind of story if you want to. -- Maurice Sendak
Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story. -- Jose Andres
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story. -- Robert Redford
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something? -- Marguerite Moreau
I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive. -- Willem Dafoe
I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories. -- Sophia Amoruso
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director. -- Eli Roth
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun. -- Gish Jen
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes. -- Michael Schur
Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen. -- Avi Lewis
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making? -- Elizabeth Bowen
I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen. -- Sandra Dee
The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive. -- Katie Aselton
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself. -- Russell Simmons
Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling. -- Marc Almond
I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology. -- Neil Marshall
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination. -- Maurice Sendak
Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge. -- Steve Pink

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