What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really ….

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be..

The love of every single one of my lives..

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art..

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be..

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just ….

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market..

By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the aud….

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to te….

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where t….

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story..

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old..

The more things you own, the more they own you..

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things..

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration ….

this is the upside of already being eternally damned.

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented cinematographer, or the bes….

People tend to take stories literally these days..