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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio Picture Quote #1

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in ‘Horse, Flower, Bird’ I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book Picture Quote #1

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn’t really matter Picture Quote #1

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America’s preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few ‘bad apples’ in their midst Picture Quote #1

I’ve had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life Picture Quote #1

It’s the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It’s the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale Picture Quote #1

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I never quite understood why Disney hadn’t made a sincere fairy tale since ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Picture Quote #1

I remember him reading ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and he would play the score by Tchaikovsky as he read it. We’d also read ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ and, you know, those probably that he most often read me were ‘Beatrix Potter’ books, ‘The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck’ and ‘The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.’ I still have at least 15 of them Picture Quote #1

As cynical as I can be, there’s always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale Picture Quote #1

You can believe in originals only if you just don’t know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale Picture Quote #1

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale Picture Quote #1

I’ve always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn’t say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I’ve always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it’s almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in ‘A.D. The Bible Continues,’ it’s drama, it’s real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like ‘House of Cards.’ Picture Quote #1

I’ll bring what I bring to the tale, but it’s good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby Picture Quote #1

What really matters is that ‘Black Swan’ deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially ‘The Red Shoes,’ another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal Picture Quote #1

I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I did not find something firm and magical to grab a hold of right that moment we would both be swallowed up by a noisome gang of black shapes and evil black birds Picture Quote #1

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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers Picture Quote #1

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that’s a fairy tale - definitely Picture Quote #1

Hunger Games’ is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It’s more similar to China than America, but it’s also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few Picture Quote #1

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing Picture Quote #1

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it’s not all ‘happily ever after.’ I like all that old school, bloody, ‘Brothers Grimm’ sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there Picture Quote #1

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It’s bound to disappoint you Picture Quote #1

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History is often the tale of small momentsÂ-chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidenceÂ-that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane Picture Quote #1

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change Picture Quote #1

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you’re a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true Picture Quote #1

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’ I don’t think anyone else did Picture Quote #1

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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio. (Tale Quotes) When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in ‘Horse, Flower, Bird’ I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. (Tale Quotes) As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn’t really matter. (Tale Quotes) The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America’s preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few ‘bad apples’ in their midst. (Tale Quotes) I’ve had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. (Tale Quotes) It’s the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It’s the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale. (Tale Quotes) I never quite understood why Disney hadn’t made a sincere fairy tale since ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ (Tale Quotes) I remember him reading ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and he would play the score by Tchaikovsky as he read it. We’d also read ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ and, you know, those probably that he most often read me were ‘Beatrix Potter’ books, ‘The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck’ and ‘The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.’ I still have at least 15 of them. (Tale Quotes) As cynical as I can be, there’s always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale (Tale Quotes) You can believe in originals only if you just don’t know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale. (Tale Quotes) My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale. (Tale Quotes) I’ve always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn’t say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I’ve always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships. (Tale Quotes) Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it’s almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in ‘A.D. The Bible Continues,’ it’s drama, it’s real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like ‘House of Cards.’ (Tale Quotes) I’ll bring what I bring to the tale, but it’s good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games. (Tale Quotes) 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. (Tale Quotes) A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby (Tale Quotes) What really matters is that ‘Black Swan’ deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially ‘The Red Shoes,’ another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. (Tale Quotes) I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I did not find something firm and magical to grab a hold of right that moment we would both be swallowed up by a noisome gang of black shapes and evil black birds. (Tale Quotes) Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. (Tale Quotes) You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that’s a fairy tale - definitely. (Tale Quotes) Hunger Games’ is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It’s more similar to China than America, but it’s also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few. (Tale Quotes) Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (Tale Quotes) I love that very traditional fairy tale where it’s not all ‘happily ever after.’ I like all that old school, bloody, ‘Brothers Grimm’ sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there. (Tale Quotes) I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It’s bound to disappoint you. (Tale Quotes) History is often the tale of small momentsÂ-chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidenceÂ-that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane. (Tale Quotes) Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change (Tale Quotes) I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you’re a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true. (Tale Quotes) Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. (Tale Quotes) 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. (Tale Quotes) When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’ I don’t think anyone else did. (Tale Quotes)

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