The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand,...
All stories are love stories.
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.
No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable in...
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
Every success story has a secret, Even if it’s a love story.
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story g...
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're give...
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, cou...
I like stories" He propped himself up on his elbow, looking down at her. "What sort of stories?" "Stories with magic and intrigue. Tragedy. And Love." "Ah yes...love. You can't have a story without love." Joanna giggled and nodded, relaxing. "Well, y...
We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.