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#stories

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I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.


Martin Scorsese


#energy #films #first #five #i

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.


Martin Scorsese


#father #forty #fourth #gangs #had

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.


Asne Seierstad


#afghan #after #behind #book #came

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.


Tom Selleck


#bad #because #both #cast #comes

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.


Maurice Sendak


#father #mother #psychotic #scariest #stories

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.


Joey Skaggs


#consider #directly #duty #few #get

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.


Amy Smart


#because #been #enough #film #fun

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.


Robert Stack


#ghost stories #give #i #itself #just

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.


Robert Stack


#dance #hand #help #i #look

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.


David Ogden Stiers


#catch #difficult #generating #hard #hard work






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