“As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.” I CanStoriesBigsActorsSeriousDramaDirectorsActressesThemeStory Of My Life Author:Jodie Foster
“I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.” StoriesWould BeSeriousLove StoryGangGangstersMobster Author:Jason Mewes
“We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.” PeopleWorldStoriesProcessSeriousSeriesStorytellingLogicalEpisodesPropositionsGrammar Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.” WritingMindHumansFactsStoriesShowsSeemsAbleLastsValuesBeliefResultsAttitudeFictionStudyPsychologyEffectsSeriousEvidenceArgumentDecadesHuman MindPersuasive Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.” PeopleWayBelieveStoriesProblemI BelievePowerfulClearTroubleSeaSeriousOceanCreatingPhotographyInstrumentsEnvironmentalCelebrateNew WaysHighlightsEnvironmental Problems Author:Brian Skerry
“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.” PeopleHardStoriesBigsTurnsEnergyInterestMistakeSeriousConsequenceNarrativeRight ThingDoing The Right ThingBig Mistake Author:Kelly Link
“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.” PeopleMindStoriesTogetherFallPiecesPossibilityEmotionalPaintingSeriousPeriodsDramaTragedyScaryCoreToneSatireFalling ApartEmbarrassmentLinearTaiwan Author:Ang Lee
“Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.” WritingYearsStoriesGroupsCrySerious Author:Jim C. Hines
“Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingFactsStoriesUniverseFictionSeriousScience FictionRelateBellyWombTombsUnending Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.” MenFeelsStoriesCompassionSeriousGhostLove StoryAdmireMaxIlluminatingEstimationGhost Stories Author:Elissa Schappell
“Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?” MayMatterStoriesLastsDecisionSeriousMonthsNewsNews Stories Author:Rolf Dobelli