From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind...
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would t...
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as collective memory--part of the same family of spurious notions as collective guilt. But there is collective instruction....What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this...
It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parli...
New research is lending texture and credence to what generations of storytellers have known in their bones – that books, poems, movies, and real-life stories can affect the way we think and even, by extension, the way we act ["The Power of Story," ...
Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality. Tethering fiction too tightly to the real produces plodding, lifeless stories. Letting it float too far from that anchor prod...
My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment...
You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.
Start with the end in mind.
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Love is not about the perfect ingredients in a person. It is actually about the person
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
You cannot be both in love and a wise person.
The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
