Feature Story Quotes

#1. I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

Charles Kuralt

#2. I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

Charles Kuralt

#3. Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.

Manohla Dargis

#4. I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

Alex Hirsch

#5. My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

Tracey Moffatt

#6. I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.

Thomas Kinkade

#7. The world is so empty and so loveless when there's no one in it to holler your name and holler you home.

Stephen King

#8. The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.

Savo Heleta

#9. We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Desmond Morris

#10. I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?

Noah Hawley

#11. I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.

Howard Shore

#12. I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective.

Cutter Hodierne

#13. One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

Margaret Kennedy

#14. The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. Where is truth??
Somewhere in the story... somewhere around the facts.
- There should be a truth some kind of feature, if there isn't... it goes interesting how in the hell is build a story with a truth... It's pretty interesting journey!

Deyth Banger

#16. All in all, I'd like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film ... it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.

Tom Weston-Jones

#17. As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

W.S. Gilbert

#18. Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

Gene Wolfe

#19. I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#20. Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

John Lasseter

#21. Every memory makes me who I am right now, in this moment. Good or bad, all experiences shape you.

L. H. Cosway

#22. Bad habits are like infection. Inflammation starts from the mouth and weaken the body's ability.

Kishore Bansal

#23. An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Wentworth Miller

#24. The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

Taika Waititi

#26. Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Jean De La Bruyere

#27. The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

John Mortimer

#28. not enough to make a flea a waltzing jacket.

Zora Neale Hurston

#29. When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

George Will

#30. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
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Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Henry James

#31. Vampires inspire screams, not squees.

Kevin Hearne