Audrey Hepburn Quotes

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and never simple, as dear Oscar Wilde would say. A great of it, of course, is, you collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman