Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories.
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.
I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'
There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
