For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.
