“I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'” GivingLongStillsStoriesForgetTalkingGiving UpLong TimeNightmareLong Time AgoDon't Give UpComradeEmmanuel Author:Emmanuel Jal
“The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.” WantTryingStoriesForgetRiskProjectsOriginalsIntentionBetrayalBetraySuggestionsBeneficial Author:Lars von Trier
“Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.” KnowsWayImportantWholeStoriesRememberForgetKnow HowImportant ThingsWhole LifeTelling Stories Author:Cynthia Leitich Smith
“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.” KnowsMenWorldWayDifferentStoriesLightTogetherNightCertainForgetShareQuietSilentSentencesBrilliantFirmAttributesSteadyColleaguesWedgesSynonymReminiscingBright Lights Author:Tahereh Mafi
“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.” GivingWellsFactsStoriesSeemsActionFilmStuffForgetViolenceCarCoupleSceneEssentialsHollywoodGive MeStructureShootingBroadsFadsAction Films Author:Clint Eastwood
“It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.” StoriesShowsBigsKidsTodayYoungForgetMissingHumourDestructionPressesNosesSatInterviewsCoveredEditorsLegendsFloodReportersJournalisticOverlooking Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.” WayWantTryingBookSometimesCharacterStoriesProblemDreamMemoriesForgetBrainFiguresLike YouSolveCaptureMixturesGood BookOur MemoriesHallucinationsArchetypeI Like You Author:Ali Banisadr
“Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.” MadeRealStoriesForgetRevolutionTrumpDiseaseMedicineCancerConquerDnaAdvancementVergeAlzheimerAlzheimer'sReal StoryScientific Advancement Author:Douglas Brinkley
“I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.” PeopleThinkingShouldMindStoriesAbleJobsSoundForgetWatchesSeries Author:Channing Tatum
“O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.” KindSometimesDoneStoriesHandsFacesLeftSleepForgetHealingTiredComfortingCraveBlandForget Me Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow