#stories

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important. ↗

— James McAvoy

#get #important #just #need #people

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. ↗

— David McCullough

#drawn #evolve #i #out #particularly

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. ↗

— Michael McKean

#go #hundreds #kind #king #like

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them. ↗

— Joe Lando

#done #enjoy #i #lot #romantic

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#american cities #cities #corruption #country #crime

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#cook #days #effects #heard #i

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#crime #entertainment #exist #forms #i

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#anything #been #describe #detective #detective stories

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. ↗

— John Lasseter

#audience #challenge #connect #does #entire

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. ↗

— Spike Lee

#filmmaker #films #i #live #new