No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
Vincente Minnelli

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
Tony Hillerman

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
Anderson Cooper

It's the story that counts.
Vincente Minnelli

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.
Neil LaBute

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
Walter Hill

Everything in a story should be credible.
Rex Stout

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

A good story never dies.
Roberta Williams

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
Tom Selleck

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

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
Jeannette Walls

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
Harold Ramis

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
Joyce Maynard

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.
Ruben Blades

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
Jean M. Auel

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
Chester Brown

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge