Music gave me something to do in my life..

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether i….

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself..

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For….

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, ….

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story ….

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness ….

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person a….

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as ….

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories..

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original..

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are..

I don't really like ska..