I will say that Vertigo is an area of great interest to me. It is even less well tapped than other parts of DC, and could potentially offer amazing stories for our future television video game, digital and consumer products businesses.
I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles - and will religiously do that - it's really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let's make some new stories.
I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.
I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about.
The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
