It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be telling stories on the big screen.


Laurence Fishburne

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DYLAN PENN
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling am...
AIDAN GILLEN
The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human ...
DAVID OYELOWO
I could go on for hours telling stories..but I guess youhad to be there
JIMMY BUFFETT
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
HALLE BERRY
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ...
ALICE MUNRO
Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi...
MIKE COLTER
There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
DANNY BONADUCE
Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be tol...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing ...
DAVID MORRISSEY
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I firs...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA
I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK
Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
VING RHAMES
He has a way of telling stories, one of the best I've ever heard.
LARRY CLARK
some stories don't need telling
KHALED HOSSEINI
Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own
CARLA H. KRUEGER
The telling of stories creates the real world.
ALBERTO MANGUEL
Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and oursel...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
DAVID S. GOYER
I'm sure we're going to be up all night telling stories.
BEN JAFFE
It was awesome, the best trip I've been on. I came back telling stories to all my friends.
DAVID MALDONADO
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Jesus was the great storyteller. He made his points by telling parables or stories.
DAVID WILLIAMSON
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done,...
DAVE GROHL
We have stories to tell and this is a good time for us to start telling them,
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The screen is now telling us that this second 'revolution' might mean oil prices approaching that 80...
SOCIETE GENERALE
A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.
ERALDO BANOVAC
We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the fi...
COURTENEY COX
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...
MICHAEL SHERMER
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re...
JOE BASTIANICH
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
REBECCA HALL
I guess some stories do not need telling.
KHALED HOSSEINI
I'm excited to share these Lone Surfer stories because I've always wanted to be a writer since I was...
DAVY ROTHBART
Gossip~ Just because it's said, doesn't mean it's accurate or true....And it's often more telling ab...
BJ MORIN
Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we ...
LINDSEY KELK
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stori...
BRYANT GUMBEL
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of tell...
SARA PARETSKY
The only time I saw the replay was on the big screen in the stadium,
LADELL BETTS
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories fr...
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY
The collapse was really a function of European disease being introduced. The story that's been told ...
CARL LIPO
Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that...
MARY HART
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself i...
OLIVIER DAHAN
I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.
JOHN BENNETT
I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first ...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of nega...
ROY T. BENNETT
I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, bec...
MARY GAITSKILL
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE
It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a litt...
KELVIN YU
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
RUTH OZEKI
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories...
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY
Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the ...
JOHN DICKERSON
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
BEN MACINTYRE
The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, i...
WADAH KHANFAR
I wanted to see myself up on the big screen
JESSICA SIMPSON
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they&...
BECKY G
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and th...
J. H. WYMAN
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, usi...
KIM EDWARDS
A lot of it is stories we were telling ourselves last week.
JAMES CORNISH
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian storie...
YAHOO SERIOUS
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbe...
ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN
If the lions would start telling stories to their children, the hunter can’t beat them.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
CLAIRE DANES
I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.
ADRIANNE PALICKI
We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a...
AVA DUVERNAY
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off....
T. J. THYNE
The camera pans to him. He's on the big screen. Everyone yells
CHRISTIAN FAURIA
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cin...
SERGE DANEY
It'll be transferred to your credit account readily, you may even get a credit report when you go ho...
CHARLES WALTON
You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great con...
BRIAN KRZANICH
There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession...
ROBERT BRUSCA
There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
LUKE EVANS
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ...
JAY-Z
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came dow...
PATRICK J. ADAMS
Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situa...
ATHOL FUGARD
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories...
KELSEY CHOW
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing real...
SETH SHOSTAK
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we lo...
TIMOTHY DALTON
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat...
STEVEN LEVITT
I'm not looking at this as being his last play, or even the last play of the cycle. This is a contin...
ANTHONY CHISHOLM
I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of ...
CAMERON CROWE
It's one of those things that has come up on our radar screen. We haven't seen anything to indicate ...
GARY STEVENS
I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,
JAMES TOBIN
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the ...
CHRIS CAVANAUGH
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that...
JOHN ELDREDGE
Sonic and I were chatting back before we got on and he was telling me how proud he was to be inducte...
NOLAN BUSHNELL
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a...
TATE TAYLOR
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
VAL KILMER
We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.
BETH GIBBONS
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty In...
ERIN GRUWELL
Little figures on a little screen showed newsreel footage, talked about the war with maps and pointe...
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Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we ha...
LAURENCE YEP
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no ...
LAURENCE STERNE
By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying pathol...
LAURENCE MILLER
When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over...
LAURENCE MEYER
I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't...
MARGARET LAURENCE
The Committee continues to see the removal of accommodation as the focus of policy and has given no ...
LAURENCE MEYER
We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution pr...
LAURENCE LAU
I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really n...
LAURENCE FOX
'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES
Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
Do I think the shareholders are in a better position today than yesterday? Yes.
LAURENCE PETTIT
The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG
The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in sc...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
If they were to drink multiple glasses of this mixture or concoction, I think there'd be a potential...
LAURENCE SPERLING
Some of this benefit we see now may be a combination of our increased awareness of heart disease in ...
LAURENCE SPERLING
Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
LAURENCE STRICK
He has no choice, the way these people have forced his hand.
LAURENCE STRICK
He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.
LAURENCE WHITE
It's often said that there are countries where bribery is a way of life, and that's still the case.
LAURENCE URGENSON
This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyda...
LAURENCE TONEY
We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is rea...
LAURENCE TONEY
I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the...
LAURENCE WHITE
If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE
The Internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder.
LAURENCE BELL
The extension of the contract demonstrates our strong confidence in the Chinese aviation market and ...
LAURENCE BARRON
It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is t...
LAURENCE BARRON
It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, ...
LAURENCE BARRON