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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!