I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you t….

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are reall….

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time..

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story..

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive..

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives..

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have….

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels..

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message..

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow..

The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of….

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not ….

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature..

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went..

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures..

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody..

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories..

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind..

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story..

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I ….

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me..