Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
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.
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
