When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini….

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means..

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other for….

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first..

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera..

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you..

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies..

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace..

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we ….

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my li….

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else..

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes..

I work on stories rather than individual pictures..

Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell..

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small..

Women like being kissed..

Happiness is not a place - it is a direction..

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world..

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs..

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born..