“Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.” PeopleMadeI CanDifferentStoriesGrowsParticularAmbitionProjectsLet MeDrivenBackgroundsFilmmakerBeing The BestDocumentariesBest FilmDifferent Backgrounds Author:Lucy Walker
“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.” PeopleLooksStatesStoriesAmericaPastLanguageImaginationCommonRaceLibertySupportPlansExpressionAmbitionSightConstitutionNarrativeRangeEnterpriseHorizonMonumentInvasionPremisesAncestry Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.” FirstsMeanMadeStoriesHandsUsedStrongBoysPlansColorAmbitionPagesHollywoodPaidPressesGuitarWinterSavedInventionLocalsAgentsFarmsCashWornUnclesCattleUntruePrairieHaySearsStacking Author:Gene Autry
“Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.” KnowsStoriesStuffClearCuttingAmbitionGood StoryGreat Writers Author:Donald Miller
“The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.” TryingStoriesFilmFormPerfectSuccessfulStyleAmbitionEquations Author:Danny Boyle
“You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.” HumansEndsReasonStoriesUseDreamBigsEnergyBornHuman BeingsPersonalityHabitSafeWasteAchievementAmbitionComplexesMythProportionMeant To BeWasting TimeCosmicUnderestimateWere Meant To BeArchetypeDon't Waste Time Author:Caroline Myss
“So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got to be a script that's up to snuff and worth going back for. The idea's there, the ambition's there, the excitement's there; but we need to have all the pieces in place before they would ever pull the trigger on that.” NeedsIdeasStoriesBehindsSupportPiecesAmbitionScriptsExcitementTriggersSnuff Author:Joseph Kosinski
“I remember [Patrick J. Adams] being in a particularly disillusioned place and really wanting your ambitions to be met with opportunity and not feeling like they were. It's all the more reason that I feel grateful to be able to stay connected and be in each other's lives. Obviously now you're in a very different place, and it's really nice to be able to look back on that and be reminded of how far we've come, at least in the opportunity aspect. The mental state aspect of it is a different story, I'm sure, but I always knew you would work.” FeelsLooksDifferentStatesReasonStoriesFeelingsAbleRememberOpportunityNiceMetsAmbitionAspectGratefulConnectedDifferent PlaceReally NiceDisillusionedHow Far We've Come Author:Zachary Quinto
“When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and essays and stories, I didn't feel like I was far enough along to submit work to some place and have it judged.” FeelsWritingTryingEnoughStoriesCreativeBecomingAmbitionProgramJudgedGraduatesSubmitVagueEssaysCreative WritingStanfordPhds Author:Robert Hass
“I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.” IfsWantStoriesPayParticularAmbitionMediumsTelling Stories Author:Joss Whedon
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?” MenWorldLifeBelieveHumansWellsHardDoneStoriesEvilLeftI BelieveKindnessAmbitionCleanHungerIllCaughtCrueltyDustGenerosityGood And EvilChipsEdenAvariceEast Of Eden Author:John Steinbeck
“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” MenTryingHumansLongWarGodStoriesReligionChristianityClassPovertyTerribleAmbitionSlaveryMereEmpiresHopelessHuman HistoryProstitution Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.” PeopleKnowsBelieveChildrenStoriesFacesValuesKnow HowConditionsStrangeComfortAmbitionAdultsResourcesUniversalOur ChildrenPlentyFragileFiniteAccustomedGod KnowsScarcityDoritos Author:Michael Chabon
“In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.” WritingMadeStoriesWantedClearProgressConversationAmbitionObsessedEngagingBridesViolinPlaying MusicShameless Book:Grip of the Shadow Plague Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague
“Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.” IfsWantYearsLittlesStoriesTogetherLosesSecretAcceptingForeverGraceSadnessShareDangerousStrangeAmbitionSightFolksHeavyGenerousIf I CouldVotingGood WorkSeptemberTribesWhiskeyVinesSproutsTogether ForeverHigh Ambition Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.” ThinkingWorldChildrenPersonsFactsStoriesFeelingsFeltMy OwnHabitConversationAmbitionLonelyEverydayIsolatedImaginaryEveryday LifeFacilityMaking UpUndervaluedLonely Child Book:A Collection of Essays Source: A Collection of Essays
“I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.” PeopleThinkingMindLooksCharacterStoriesEyeCoursesBitsInterestingPiecesCreationAmbitionSticksBurningThemeShopsOccupationThreadButtonsFabricShelvesCollectingRibbonsBeadsGreat CharacterBits And PiecesFlotsam Author:Alexandra Sokoloff