Top 30 Same Story Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Same Story Quotes from famous people such as Peter Jackson, C. S. Lewis, Stan Lee, Terry Crews, Brie Larson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It’s more about that same story being filtered through somebody else’s sensibility.
Peter Jackson
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.
Stan Lee
You know what? I wanna play something that is really… it changes the game. I don’t wanna be the same story where it’s the Charles Bronson formula, where he’s getting revenge or whatever.
Terry Crews
The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it’s still the same story. It’s the same story, but with a different face.
Brie Larson
So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we’ve seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.
Jerry A. Webman
My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.
Cory Booker
I’m just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I’ve told it already.
Randall Munroe
I find the mediums to be incredibly different. In theatre you’re telling the same story eight times a week, and in TV that story is constantly changing and you’re often telling it out of order based on shooting schedules.
Helene Yorke
I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It’s very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn’t come out the same.
David A. Adler
I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.
Brian Azzarello
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua Achebe
People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times – and ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Robert Eggers
I think there’s a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we’re young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story – and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
John McGahern
Well, I think they’re all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it’s the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Liam Neeson
Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we’re all telling the same story – a disappointingly reductive view.
Celeste Ng
Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It’s always the same story repeating once and again and again.
Eduardo Galeano
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story – to tackle different characters with different issues.
Eric Jerome Dickey
Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every night from beginning to end.
Hale Appleman
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.
James Randi
Every love story or Hindi film has the same story, but what makes it different is the treatment it’s given. Much depends on how it is stylised, how the characters are moulded, and how the story is treated.
Bobby Deol
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it’s the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters’ dilemmas are remarkably similar.
Josh Hartnett
I’m telling the same story in every film.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I’m not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.
Robert Jordan
We’ve been told the same story for so long. We’ve seen literally 1,000 ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies.
Tomi Adeyemi
Nobody knows why we’re alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
Devdutt Pattanaik
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
James Altucher
Competition between men is a fuel that’s useful to us. We have to be careful that it doesn’t tell the same story over too many times, but it’s amazing how durable that story is.
Bill Irwin
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone’s laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they’re all laughing at you?
Toby Young
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do – fight while they can.
George Crook