The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare d….

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting a….

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like wat….

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter..

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean..

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most in….

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story..

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end..

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right….

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more….

No one survives life..

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character..

There never was a story that was happy through and through..

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more ….

Strength is for service, not status.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work..