The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and ….

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you s….

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it..

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure..

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story ….

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?.

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, be….

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it..

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal..

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor f….

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story..

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic..

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the ….

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories..

It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say th….

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness..

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling..

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home..

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp..

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility..

Photography must be integrated with the story..