#stories

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#me #more #movies #pictures #stories

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#carolina #country #cover #difficult #general

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American. ↗

— Roger Michell

#american #europe #european #feel #i

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#come #i #i think #musicals #nothing

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#another #character #does #functions #most

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#bathroom #beneath #ghost #ghost stories #grab

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#becoming #child #create #i #illustrate

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#brain #come #different #different kinds #different parts

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#being #broadcast #business #cable #dying

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#best #broken #complicated #composing #could