Quotes About Narrative

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

The whole thing with the Rick James story sketch and the Prince story sketch - I recounted my past, you know? - and that's what I was doing. It's not like I sat down and said I want to come up with a great story about Rick James. That stuff really happened.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

I love stories with a happy ending," Inspector Me said.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.