Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time..

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly….

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts..

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To gra….

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore..

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts..

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. ….

I've always been a businesswoman..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski..

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer..

Do not serve time, let time serve you..

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart..

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that..

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of oth….

We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are ….

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story ….

I don't talk about money..

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories..