A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.
A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the writers' room or one of the writers themselves told in the writers' room.
When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
