Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough backgr….

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of t….

I have no story. My story goes from day to day..

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can f….

There's something special about working with picture and adding music to picture that really takes you to a whole new level. It's always the director….

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else..

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?.

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives..

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all k….

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say..

Someone who wants to be with you, WILL be with you. End of story..

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had….

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished..

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stori….

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story..

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story..

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life..

Piper reads the scripts, and we email a lot. Most of her comments are on the more technical side, like "This wouldn't happen. This is against the rul….

I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic,….

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not..

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over..