#stories

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible. ↗

— George A. Romero

#fail #finger #how #humans #i

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#eccentric #first #i #just #maybe

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#characters #drawn #experience #fill #films

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#made #stories #universe

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted. ↗

— Walter Salles

#complete #complete freedom #did #direction #done

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#always #appealed #based #been #bottles

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#financial #give #give me #i #me

I like stories that affect families. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#families #i #like #stories

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#everything #getting #getting older #had #happened

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler