I just want to tell great stories.
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.
My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.
Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.
When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.
I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.
It doesn't feel like work. Yes, I have days that are difficult, but I'm sitting in a chair making up stories. It's what I did for fun as a kid, whether with Barbies or stuffed animals.
At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.
I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
