There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive an….

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness..

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart ….

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective..

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. ….

Stories matter. Many stories matter..

Things look different when history is seen as His-story..

If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of….

I have making a new film called Story of Your Life, directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Which is abou….

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt..

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of ….

Every man is a hero of his own story..

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the ….

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds..

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it..

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own..

I can be so blown away by story lines..

So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character….

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in th….

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world..