Jennifer Beals Quotes

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.