Personal Stories

If you put your

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect. Gabriel Iglesias

We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That’s a kind of personal story of mine that I … Read more

The war is definitely

The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they’re essentially faced with … Read more

I told personal stories

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue. Ed Helms

I think this is

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it’s not about me telling my personal story. Frances Stark

Everybody wants life to

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to … Read more

I am sometimes sad

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. Dalai Lama

Directors go their whole

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are. Christian Bale

I chose to tell

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that’s as emotionally charged as this is, it’s a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, If you aren’t taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker? Christian Bale

There was a reason

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse. Charlie Sheen