#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

My stories are character driven. ↗

— Terry McMillan

#driven #stories

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#booth #million #phone #soundstage #stories

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 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

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fiction #genres #non-fiction #only #perhaps

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#big #big success #big thing #facebook #ideas