Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense..

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and….

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stori….

People who know various movie versions don't really know the story..

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the b….

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller..

Arithmetic is the death of story..

I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies a….

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'.

You are what exists before all stories..

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the re….

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws..

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, dis….

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to..

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story..

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should..

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!.

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life..

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story..