I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.
I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
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.
