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I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's about them. You have to make your story, whatever story it is you're telling, their story. So you have to get good at telling a story so they can identify themselves in your story.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger.

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.