Meaningful Story Quotes

I want to be a part of good stories. It's not about my role, but the overall story that counts.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

There's an amazing line in Marcus Aurelius: "The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye." Maybe green is your favorite color - but if you saw everything as green, that wouldn't be a blessing, it would be an eye disease. By the same token, if there was no heartbreak, and everything happened exactly as you want - it would be a less beautiful and meaningful story than the actual story, where you're a part of a huge complicated mysterious whole.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.

Leaving a book is hard - 'Secret Six' was a book that people cared about. Even years later, the digital sales are great; the trades and single issues are expensive and highly sought after. It was meaningful to a lot of readers, which is endlessly gratifying.

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful.