I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.
The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.
Knockemstiff is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.
Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind
I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.
One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.
Im known for impressions and family stories.
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
If you go into a comic book store, there are tons of Star Wars stories on the stand. There are lots of different stories to tell. Maybe George [Lucas] won't tell them. Maybe some kid, who's a Star Wars fan that's planning to go to film school, will call Lucas and say, 'I'd like to make a Star Wars film. ' Then, they'll make one.