The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft..

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much mo….

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different..

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing r….

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out..

Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor….

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image..

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous W….

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”.

I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying to ….

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm ….

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer..

But this too is true: stories can save us..

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books..

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experienc….

Our children's children will hear a good story..

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to ….

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience..

Technique is of less interest than character and story..

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe..

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I hav….