I'm not interested in BREAKING news. I'm interested in TELLING the STORY of what's GOING on and then trying to figure it out.

The ENGLISH are POLITE by TELLING LIES. The Americans are polite by telling the TRUTH.

As Commander in Chief of the United States MILITARY, I will never SEND our SONS and daughters and our BROTHERS and sisters to die in a foreign LAND without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Essentially, I'm a STORYTELLER, and I make my LIVING by TELLING STORIES, be they music or nonfiction or FICTION.

The WORST THING in the WORLD is TELLING yourself you can't do SOMETHING.

I've READ up on MAGIC, and I think it SETS you free, and it GIVES you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of WONDER.

I BEGAN by TELLING the PRESIDENT that there was a cancer GROWING on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

A character wandering around ASKING, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a STORY I'm interested in telling.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I LOOKED at the WORLD. By the same TOKEN, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

The only PITCH I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just GIVE me $8 million. I'm not TELLING you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

People are always TELLING me that CHANGE is GOOD. But all that means is that SOMETHING you didn't want to HAPPEN has happened.