I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well..

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story t….

I am mentally bifocal..

It's all about letting the story take over..

You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are..

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story..

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you..

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd….

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to som….

Be classy. Anything but trashy..

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold..

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love..

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely..

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad..

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are..

A woman only can understand a woman..

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure..

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better..

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure..

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams….

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw….