I'd rather work to live than live to work..

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them..

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's anothe….

My friends have made the story of my life..

We're endangered by our own success..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface..

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago..

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty….

Never Explain Anything.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnot….

The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated….

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

Africa is on the rise..

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell..

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and….

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poe….

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development..

For whatever you live is life..