If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good scree….

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story"..

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective..

Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if y….

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strik….

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was ….

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of ….

Believe that story false that ought not to be true..

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as i….

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on..

Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone w….

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them..

The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperat….

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character..

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is ther….

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author..

In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true….

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently..

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story..

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night..

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell..