We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology….

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody a….

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to ….

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the ha….

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way ….

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects..

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, an….

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe..

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war ….

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic..

Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves..

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will lis….

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely..

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficul….

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story w….

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden..

We're all stories, in the end..

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories..

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live..

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story ….