Roy H. Williams Quotes

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Data loses to story. Every time. Your statistics don’t trump my experience.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.

I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're lucky enough to get it, like with 'Lost,' that's what I follow.

I'll take any story if it's good.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.