But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world..

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves..

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married..

Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel o….

I think Scotland has some great stories..

I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories..

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life..

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread..

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like Chucky or Saw or whatever, I'm like come on, real….

One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this..

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally..

Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both hav….

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start some….

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else a….

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to per….

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help ….

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself..

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else..

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places..

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the aut….

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong..