“You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.”

“There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

“Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

“What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?”

“What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.”

“I think the most important thing, when you are directing is perspective on the story. What is your take? What are you saying? What does it mean?”

“You think you know what I am, she thought, but all you’ve got is stories.”

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”