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You know, people make up a lot of different stories about a lot of different things.

There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap in the market, and I'm trying to fill it.

I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in a work environment, then why go away from it?

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

Films which often preach Hindu-Muslim unity have deliberately steered clear of Hindu-Muslim love stories.

I often stumble upon new stories when I am wandering on the roads in search of information.

Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.

Our family get-togethers are about the stories such as my uncle who walked across the Indo-Burma border, or a woman who gave birth in a ship carrying refugees etc.

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.

Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I am doing what I can to expand the tent and bring up other people and make sure we are telling different kinds of stories.

I'm very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don't see those kind of stories.

A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn't come from an organic place.

My God, do we have some of the most amazing people. You won't find stories like ours. You almost feel like, if there's ever a need to tell an American story, just come to Detroit.

Sad stories have no takers.

I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full of interesting stories of her own, what makes her so invaluable is the way she can spin the tales of others into such hard-to-put-down page turners.

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

Not all stories are meant for the big screen.

In 'The Beginning,' each one of us was introduced, but the audience didn't know our back stories and the drama. You wouldn't have known how deep Bhallaladeva's jealousy for Baahubali is.

I want to do films in different languages because I want to tell stories in different genres.