Stories Quotes

I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is “His story,” the story of God.

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word “myth” only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

I’m pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.