In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
I think women love a passionate love story.
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.
Henry Wellcome certainly was a talented character with a colorful and amazing personal story.
I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.
At its heart, 'Meru' is a personal story.
Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that perhaps I was working on something that could be very special.
I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
