#stories

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#around #chance #culture #dominated #dream

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#chance #get #god #got #great

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

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#any #formula #out #stories #tell

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#australian #cheer #everyone #goes #greatest

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#allies #coalition #difficulties #even #good

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