One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it’s very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
It’s true that I’m drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don’t really attract me.
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you’re performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.
The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We’re all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
The filmmaker’s got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
I’m pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
I’ve been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn’t gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success.
The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they’re creating original stories that not only don’t repeat what we’ve already done, they also don’t repeat anything I’ve seen on television.
We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.
When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.