Quotes About Change

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

The way that we're consuming what we watch. Netflix, binge-watching, destination agnostic were not terms. It was about networks, times, dates. Even with feature films, you had to see it this way, in this capacity, at this time. All that has changed. Now it's really about the story. It's a gift that I became a storyteller at this time.

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.

I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be is not a thing anymore. Everyone is redefining publishing, writing, and storytelling in general.

I mean, television has really changed a lot, and changed the way movie people think about working in the storytelling business.

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.