Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
When I’m engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I’m not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature’s penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they’re trying to tell.
I think Scotland has some great stories.
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.
It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you’re bound to.
That’s what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I’m going to learn, if I’m going to research, it’s probably going to lead me to writing a novel.
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that’s something I learned at an early age.
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
The truth is not so good a story.
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.
Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.
I’m in love with kid’s stories and animation.
There is no greater power on this earth than story.
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.