#story

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#history #left #life #lived #man

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #history #led #life #man

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #before #evil #existed #express

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#feeling #give #happy #itself #make

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

#envisioned #held #i #i think #mind

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#death #dramatic #drawn #element #even

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#fantasy #films #ford #i #i think

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#agenda #beliefs #cinema #getting #i

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#again #character #ever #every #greek

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#any #day #false #gets #history