'Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message.
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials
A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.
Alexander Dyle: All right, get set for the story of my life. Reggie Lampert: Fiction or non-fiction?
Santosh Patel: Spectacle. Don't let the stories and pretty lights fool you, boys. Religion is darkness.
Buzz: Do you know these life forms? Woody: Yes, they're Andy's toys.
NOVEL, SHORT STORY. TRY TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME READING TO HELP RELEASE STRESS AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIS LIFE.
Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.
