I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story...

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or...

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop - motion is the...

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second,...

We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave goodbye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always...

But that is another story.

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

Happy but isn't the human factor what connects us deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of...

Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon {the aforementioned Gandarw}, except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were...

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then...

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories...

We all tell stories - to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no...

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

My Characters Tell ME Where THEY Want to Go.

In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of...

A lot of children's literature beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't...

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.