Laura Miller Quotes

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

If the human story in 'STM' is relatable, it will work.

Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'

Great stories move through fear.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

I've always enjoyed film, but I'm a little afraid of it because I think it is very powerful as a medium. You have the visuals, the sound, the colors, all of these things coming at you, and they transport you physically so it becomes this surround sound, virtual reality.

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.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

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.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

But in a story I can steal her soul.