What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
[marveling at a Christmas gift he just opened] Mr. Parker: A can of Simoniz!
Melvin Udall: You like sad stories? Wanna hear mine?
Pauline Parker: It's a three act story with a tragic end.
Notary Jean Lebel: Death is never the end of the story. It always leaves tracks.
Morla, the Ancient One: We don't even care whether or not we care.
Atreyu: Do you have a cold? Morla, the Ancient One: No, we are allergic to youth.
Dutch: [to Dillon] So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meatgrinder?
Tracy Lord: Put me in your pocket, Mike.
Macaulay Connor: Tell four footmen to call me in time for lunch will you?
Dinah Lord: Oh, it won't rain. Tracy won't stand for it.
Woody: Hey, Buzz! You're flying! Buzz: This isn't flying, this is falling with style!
Sid Phillips: [talking in his sleep] I wanna ride the pony...
Woody: Uh, Buzz, we missed the truck! Buzz: We're not aiming for the truck!
