I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought..

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way..

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense..

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie..

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best..

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning..

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is..

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work..

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk..

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation..

I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories..

Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels a….

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in t….

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thi….

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is..

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled..

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it mo….

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story..

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a….

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject..

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single ….