There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.
The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.
I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.
I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
