The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be..

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc..

For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last y….

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense..

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way..

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down..

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the Ameri….

Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never….

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out..

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice..

What is worth having is worth working for..

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland..

We are a species addicted to a stories..

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do..

No- one is ever told any story but their own..

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me..

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, bu….

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened..

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for..