The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.
Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across.
There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.
You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.
I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.
You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
