The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.