You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories..

A lot of the earliest Instagram celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about….

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way ..

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished..

History is His story..

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours..

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them..

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story..

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it w….

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them..

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity..

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide..

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories..

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear..

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't hav….

Everything in a story should be credible..

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful..

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff..

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith..

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change..

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories..