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.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

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.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory setting.

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.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes...

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

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 think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

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...

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular...

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.

The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.

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...

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

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...