Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the ….

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you ar….

The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to ….

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them..

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories….

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door..

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story..

Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin beg….

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13..

I don't know what to say to people. It's become so big. It's become part of the cultural environment. For the first and second Twiglight, I knew exac….

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our societ….

Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great lit….

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must..

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories..

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity..

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and ….

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in….

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion..

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a k….

And in stories, endings matter..

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again..