Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing, and I guess I used to think about it that way too a long long time ago. But as I've lived my life and loved and lost friends and famil...
Walter Neff: Hello, Keyes. You're up pretty early, aren't you? I always wondered what time you got down to the office. Or did that little man of yours pull you out of bed? Barton Keyes: The janitor did. Seems you leaked a little blood on the way in h...
Quote from "A la bulgaro": "So long time has passed since those days, and since that story, which is still vivid in my memory, and even more vivid than all the rest. Some times I stay alone in my work - room here, in my father's old mansion in Pasade...
In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and there were a whole lot of them on every conceivable subj...
I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.
And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
I think I'm always drawn to a good story.
It's no sin to tell a good story.
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
A story just isn't a story without a dragon.
When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.
Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
