Simon Schama Quotes

One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.