One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard..

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you an….

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives..

I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colo….

I always feel emotionally engaged in productions. If I ever get to the point where I don't feel emotionally engaged, maybe I should stop. You have to….

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up..

We are the future, and we hope to be rather than taking us back to a lot of the old ideas..

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical s….

I like having my own story remain my story..

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and ever….

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message..

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story..

As time passes, my story fades away..

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story..

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps..

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories..

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up i….

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV..

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn'….

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list..

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories..