We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going i….

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story t….

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them..

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories..

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it..

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting..

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener..

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pres….

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write..

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that..

To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way s….

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story..

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine..

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door..

If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the settin….

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary m….

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed..

I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the first time I've played a character who is a….

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagine….