Jim Sturgess Quotes

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

People love stories. They need stories.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

People just love stories.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

All love stories are the same.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

almost all novels are love stories.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

Everyone's story matters.

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hate. That'll show them.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.