For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists..

he's a story i want to know from page one.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's abou….

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character..

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard..

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not..

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies..

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have yo….

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of….

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge..

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or mayb….

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating..

I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories..

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there..

The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equiva….

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other..

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully..

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand..

The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingn….

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there a….

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written..