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You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm always shocked. People stop me on the street and throw lines at me from 'Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight' and 'Deep Space Nine.' 'Shawshank' happens a lot because they play it so much on TV.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.