I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.
Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
