Enter the story as late as you can..

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality..

When blame has been assigned, the story is over..

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it ….

I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certain….

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story….

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story..

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story..

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story..

Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebo….

It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a….

Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends….

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up..

I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to di….

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears..

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity..

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed beca….

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow t….

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told..

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a ….