If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone..

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories..

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story..

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance..

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are n….

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradua….

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious….

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening..

You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a m….

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism y….

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice..

The truth of the story lies in the details..

It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you..

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it..

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself..

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story..

In terms of Bridget [Jones] I honestly don't know. One thing I can say for sure is that all of these stories have been an honest, instinctive express….

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles..

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you..

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chain….

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of….