Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
