"The first story I finished was when I was six years old."
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"I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me."
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"I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves."
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"Full stories are as rare as honesty."
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"Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original."
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"I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future."
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"I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me."
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"Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made."
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"It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else."
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"I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments."
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"The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism."
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"I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it."
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"Me. I like to have fun. I'm like a kid in a candy story out there."
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"A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see."
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"All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing."
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"I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination."
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"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."
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"I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier."
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"Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words."
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"Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest."
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