stories Quotes

“What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.”

“There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.”

“I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.”

“Some stories are true that never happened.”

“There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.”

“You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.”

“Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.”

“My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.”

“A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.”

“To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.”