Oliver North Quotes

I always write about something that moves me.

Our history is a passion for me. I feel that we leave out so much information and huge gaps in the American story and it makes it hard for people to really understand that we are all intricately related as Americans. So I am attracted to historically based projects because we entertain and learn something at the same time. I just love that combination.

I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into politics? And she actually does have a story there to tell about children. And so drawing that animating passion will do good.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

I couldn't run from that desire to tell stories, that desire to tell stories about us, and about the people I loved.

I want to do a love story. I really want to do a love story.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

I just love to share my story with people as much as I can.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.