“Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.” IfsFeelsKindImportantStoriesGuyStuffVersions Author:Zack Snyder
“What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.” PeopleTryingRealDoneStoriesShowsBeautifulGuyBe GoodReal LifeBad ThingsBad GuysWireThings DoneGood GuyTrue Life Author:Tristan Wilds
“I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.” PeopleIfsWantRealStoriesKidsGuyCan DoGrowing UpGrowingShareTypeObstaclesInsightHeyRelateThis GuyNurturingSeals Author:Howard E. Wasdin
“I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.” EndsStoriesGuyLove StoryThe End Of The Day Author:Max Landis
“I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.” RealStoriesInspirationGuyHappened Author:Grant Morrison
“You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.” PeopleStillsStoriesGuyNamesMillionsCrazyNbaCheerOne In A Million Author:Kevin Durant
“The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?” WritingStoriesGuyWinningGroupsSatisfyingThat GuyPrestigiousO Henry Author:Tony D'Souza
“AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.” MadeStoriesGuyAttentionBandMy FavoriteAll TimePay AttentionQueensFavorite Bands Author:Rico Love
“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.” DifferentStoriesBigsWantedGuyAnimalRegretProudLosingBoxesExcitedScreensSomething NewSerenityGood StoryFireflyBig ScreenDifferent Animals Author:Joss Whedon
“It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.” WorldMayDoeEndsStoriesGuySoundWalksFictionScience FictionBoardsEnd Of The WorldUp And DownSandwichesFiction Stories Author:Lembit Opik
“A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.” KnowsWarRealStoriesUsedArtistGuyNamesKnownCatTrainIslamTerrorLondonListsTerroristFlightEmergenciesLandingWar On TerrorMaineSuccess StoriesReal Success Author:Cat Stevens
“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.” IfsLooksStoriesHandsMightEyeGuyTurnsLeftStepsFeetMessagesCrossesBallsSorryCoffeeControlledChestsBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Thierry Henry
“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?” ThinkingWorldKindDoeBookEndsReasonStoriesBigsCareGuyTurnsGirlReadingGivenNovelDataWinnerPlotAdultery Author:Elif Batuman
“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.” ThinkingKnowsWritingYearsSaidI CanStoriesGuyCan DoBoysOfficeHandleHeyDo You KnowThey SaidI Can Do ItSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Stan Lee
“When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.” IfsWellsBookMatterStoriesLastsGuyStuffSimpleTruth IsDrawsPaidDrawingI RealizedComicComic BookHalfwaySensationalUncomplicatedDraftsman Author:John Romita, Sr.
“You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.” IfsKnowsLooksStoriesGuyTurnsRidiculousBad GuysGood Guy Author:Brad Pitt
“Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?” YearsFirstsStoriesBigsFunnyGuyModelsFirst TimeDatingGirlfriendLos AngelesOlympicsRetiredLondon Olympics Author:Conan O'Brien
“I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.” PeopleStoriesGuyEnjoyWatchesMeetingsHearingLikesAirportsSessionAutographsWatchers Author:Joey Logano
“a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.” WritingIdeasMatterStoriesGuyThreeStrongGrowsBornLinesNovelBearsRelationDiedComplexesUnconsciousChaptersSpidersTerrificSpunSpider Web Author:Katherine Paterson
“My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.” ThinkingSaidStoriesBigsMightRememberFilmGuyGrowing UpGrowingCollegeDadMy DadNflHighlightsTelling StoriesBig GuysCollege Days Author:Andrew Luck
“To my friends and people I care about, I'm a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.” PeopleWantWritingMeanStoriesCareGuyStuffSawsNiceStreetsMy FriendsCuteI CarePuppyReally NiceNice GuyCute PuppyFunny Stuff Author:Tucker Max
“One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.” ThinkingStoriesSchoolGuyEvilRichProgrammingGreedySchool System Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!” KnowsWantKindIdeasEndsStoriesHappensGuyWaitingLike MeNo IdeaLet It GoJust Let It Go Author:Veronica Roth
“I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.” IfsKnowsCharacterStoriesRomanceGuyNextLiteratureEmotionDoorsMinutesKissingBiggerSexualityBitesStakesSensibilityGothicOne MinuteKissing YouBigger Than LifeFriendships And Relationships Author:Frank Wildhorn