I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

I’m just writing a story that I want to read.

When I made ‘Real Steel,’ the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there’s been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about...

Our love story is not written yet, it is mix of stupidity, fun and devotion.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it’s better not to tell the truth.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings...

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.

L’eccesso di orgoglio è un peccato molto diffuso, ma un uomo può frustrare altrettanto facilmente il volere di Dio per eccesso di umiltà.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a...

A boy with a story must write.

What’s important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will...

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

I’ve allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful...

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

…What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

When I decide to write a story, I don’t think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It’s just how...

Everyone today has a story; the world’s an archive.

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom large because everything in the world of fairy tales is blown...

It’s fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

The first book I fell in love with was ‘Little Toot,’ the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) ‘There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever...

I’m reminded of a story I told my 5th grade class in the 4th grade.

It’s very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

…I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because its genre. On the other hand, I’ve also never understood the...

The story of ‘Highway’ is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don’t want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you...

So I’m not really quite sure what Landis’ plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

Die and born again, die and born again. It’s the story of my life.

When I make movies, I don’t ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there’s a story there.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

It’s not about people believing the story. It’s about you knowing and holding it to be true.

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of...

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one...

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.

We live in the world we made up.

I try to tell a story that’s good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it’s poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don’t reach people,...

All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did...

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot...

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.