#telling

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. ↗

— George Lucas

#boring thing #effect #means #pretty #special

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. ↗

— George Lucas

#always #building #did #i #inspired

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#direct #familiar #film #first #start

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling. ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#face #feeling #get #had #heard

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#i #intention #people #telling

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story." ↗

— Yann Martel

#away #battle #especially #find #half

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#i #i quit #like #me #quit

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i think #instinct #life #me #most