Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so ANGRY for so long, I could hardly have a conversation WITHOUT getting into an argument. And it was only when I FELT I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to WRITE about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of YOUNG people. I think my story is a cautionary tale.

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman RATHER than the traditional MEMOIR about the GENERALS who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered GLORIOUS service to the COUNTRY.

Now, I just made an ANIMATED MOVIE a few YEARS ago, 'The TALE of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty BIG plan.

The ITALIAN prose tale had BEGUN to EXERCISE that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its GROWTH.

The search for inventive WAYS of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been GOING on a long time; in a way, DIFFERENCE was there from the START with Luke and Matthew.

'The Odyssey' is the GREAT tale, and I was REALLY taken by 'The Iliad,' so I DIG into those things, and when I was a KID I didn't. You've gotta have a CERTAIN level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.

What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is REALLY extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people DRAWING all DIFFERENT things out of it.

Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake MUST acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over HUNDREDS of years, in SEVERAL cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.

'Star WARS' is more fairy TALE than true SCIENCE FICTION.

It's a difficult UNDERTAKING. I've been MARRIED for four YEARS and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about PEOPLE who've gone deeply out of communication.

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic OPERA story. It's a tale of love and death, TRUE love SURVIVING in the face of PHYSICAL DECAY and ultimate sacrifice.

What the Greeks and Romans considered MYTHS, we CONSIDER fairy tales. We can SEE how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the MODERN fairy tale.

I first saw 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt LIKE I had lived it. Only recently, with ADULT eyes, was I able to metabolize how TRAGIC a tale it really is.

I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of CLASSIC fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my BABY daughter.

'Thirteen Orphans' is the NAME of a specific limit hand. The same COMBINATION is ALSO called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to WRITE a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also KNEW I wanted to use limit hands.