I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.
As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.
My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night. I never went to sleep without her reading to me. And she fantasized about the book and she would talk about it, the place, and you would think that after she read the book and after she told you stories about it, that she had actually been there. I learned about story from her, and I learned the value of a great story, and the value of great characters.
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.
I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story. . . we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.
If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.
How do we change the world? Change the story.
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
