The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.
History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.
All great stories began as shitty first drafts. There are no exceptions to this.
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
No man can walk out from his own story.
It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.
A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
We love those to whom we can tell our story.
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.
