“When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.” KindStoriesFansDirectContactAll Kinds Author:Jared Leto
“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.” WantFeelsWritingStoriesActorsRightsPlansProduceDirectVulnerableMovieFilmmakingScreenplaysBaggage Author:Kerry Washington
“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.” WritingTryingYearsI CanTwoStoriesRaceDirectTwo YearsTake Me Author:Steven Spielberg
“Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.” IdeasDifferentStoriesDirectProfessionDifferent Ideas Author:Timur Bekmambetov
“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.” ThinkingWayWritingHelpingStoriesWorryIssuesCostProjectsDirectProductionsDo The BestConstraints Author:Jose Padilha
“Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.” ImportantSometimesStoriesDirectRelation Author:Linda Vester
“Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.” IfsWorldYearsTwoMatterStoriesFilmSongStarsWorstTelevisionYears AgoDirectSingersTwo ThingsThank God Author:Quincy Jones
“The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.” WholeStoriesNamesRaceCasesBloodHeroTraditionDirectMereChaptersSyllablesAnathemaOral Tradition Author:P. L. Travers
“To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.” WantFirstsDoeBookWholeStoriesDesireLinesHappenedIdentityReaderDirectPainfulOpeningNarrativeTitlesCollectionsExceptionalImperativesSuspiciousEloquenceUnspeakableDebutNarrators Author:Lynn Emanuel
“My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.” WayMatterFactsStoriesAbleChoicesFightingOpportunityChanceMy OwnAbilityDecisionDirectDecision MakingLife Story Author:Barack Obama