My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.
Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today and a look into the future of what kind of meaningful stories video games are capable of telling.
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.
