The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass..

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo….

I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music….

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over..

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories..

Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our sto….

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from t….

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories..

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes..

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves..

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue..

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp..

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened..

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories..

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show tha….

You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension a….

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession..

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story..

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them..

Yes, Maxon," I whispered. "It’s possible..