Quotes About Stories

I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it's actually been really nice.

Everyone who gave me food, who took away my hunger, inspired me to compose. They told me their stories, and I had no other way to console them than with a piece of music, and that is how I learned. I did not resolve their problems with my songs, but I created a moment of release.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over the course of 22 episodes, we were able to tell the stories of these people. We had a beginning and middle and end, and as we went on, you changed every week.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

Some of the biggest hits have had simple stories narrated beautifully.

I'm one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There's a reason they got there.

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

I'm very open to following the stories that move me and reach that flexibility where you can be more flexible. I'm expanding my horizons.

I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

Predominantly I've worked with Blumhouse, and they've been really great to me. We are extremely grateful for employment. But maybe my dark soul attracts these darker, horrifying stories. But I don't particularly close myself off to any employment - any stories, I should say.

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

I'm really drawn to relationship stories and human emotions.

When your focus is franchises and brands, that limits the kinds of stories you can tell. That kind of thing can be good for the bottom line but they're not particularly good for showcasing the diversity of human experience.

I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.