“Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.” MadeStoriesDecisionResultsWrittenObjectsIntentionSpeedThemeWorldviewRevisionDecisions Made Author:George Saunders
“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
“Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.” PeopleIdeasCharacterStoriesIndividualTvsPerspectiveSeriesIntentionCaughtGood IdeasCaught UpTv SeriesIndividual LifeBest IntentionsStory People Author:Anton Corbijn
“What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.” WantI CanStoriesAttentionIntentionFilmmaker Author:James Gunn
“Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.” StoriesSeemsTodayLiteratureIntentionThemeProjection Author:Brad Pitt
“I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.” WantWritingStoriesIntentionGood Intentions Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.” IfsStoriesPromiseAbsolutesIntentionManifestationDominantImproving Book:Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition
“Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.” PeopleWayIdeasFactsStoriesSchoolLastsFilmYoungMistakeGroupsIntentionAcceptedFilm School Author:Haile Gerima