Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there’s no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It’s very strange, when you give a story and it doesn’t come out the right way.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don’t know what to tell them because my story is so...

I’m not one of these ‘the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me’ kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered ‘Once upon a time…’ to allure and spellbind an audience.

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

I’ll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty… were not perfect in the beginning. It’s only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the...

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the development of plot, character; the addition of new dramatic sequences; the emphasis accorded to one figure or another...

I didn’t go to church, I didn’t go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods – whether or not I believe in it is another story.

Brahma made up his mind to make the world and a man and woman. He made the world, and he made the man and then the woman, and put them on the island of Ceylon....

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires...

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile’s teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher...

Tell the fucking story.

It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more...

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where...

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates – from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome...

Acha alama katika dunia baada ya kuondoka.

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

My theory is, I don’t know how long it’s going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through...

Story should be a descent — the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth telling.

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn’t have institutions that pick...

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don’t think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

If I do tell you the story, the two of us will always share it. And I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do. if I lift open the lid now, you’ll be...

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all...

There is no story that can’t be improved by adding zombies.

I’m Tiny And My Reach Is Limited. I Can Give YOU Only What I Have And Surely When I Give, I Don’t Keep Anything For Me. To YOU, It’s Nothing Probably As YOU’ve Got Everything....

In the end, it wasn’t so much that there was an alternative narrative–there always was–but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more...

The story was called ‘Annika and the Bears.’ The beginning of the story is really the end, and Annika is staring wide-eyed into new velvet-black darkness. The eyes she stares with were brown once, sparkling...

The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let’s do the best story we can. Let’s not worry about production issues. ‘How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?’...

It’s easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for...

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the...

You’re in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don’t think any other person will be able to tell...

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I’d like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I’mfascinated by them anyway.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I’m telling the story to.

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams.

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that’s never my intent. That’s an unintended consequence of me just trying to...

‘American Horror Story’ is dark, so you shouldn’t be expecting too much happiness.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

Quite, quite,’ she thought with a little sigh. ‘It’s always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the...

I like Nirvana, but I couldn’t say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.