Stories Quotes

Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.

Although I’m up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement. It’s more like if you did an illuminated novel.