I would love to play Janis Gaye in the Marvin Gaye story. If they ever do the Marvin Gaye story, I would love to play Janis - just throwing that out there.
I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Woody: Oh no. Hamm the Piggy Bank: Oh yes! Return of the Astro-Nut!
Buzz Lightyear: That Barbie has nice handwriting! Jessie: Uhh, Buzz? Barbie didn't write this.
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.
Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge wh...
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions... on whether you knew the story of how others befo...
Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what really happened at any given moment. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth matter...
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you rea...
