"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."
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"I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me."
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"The story begins only when the book closes."
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"I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!"
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"We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story."
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"And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real"
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"Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer."
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"That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of."
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"Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story."
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"Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of."
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"I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character."
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"I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music."
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"My best clients tell stories that inspire. They tell stories about situations that you can identify with."
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"I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them."
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"Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story."
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"Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves."
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"All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability."
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"Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important."
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"The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story."
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"We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking about the world that each one of us creates within our mind. We are talking about the story that we create."
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