Quotes About Narrative

I actually really liked 'The Help.' I know that may not be a popular thing, but I thought it was a solid film. It wasn't 'Roots.' It wasn't 'The Color Purple.' But you couldn't pick it apart in terms of storytelling, and I thought the characters were well written.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

I do love storytelling.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can become deeply involving for an audience.

I don't consider what I do 'art.' It's 'storytelling.'

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.

Joe and I have always been drawn to ensemble storytelling. We like the idea of telling stories from multiple characters' points of view and thinking about the story from multiple characters' points of view.

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

For me, my brand is good storytelling.

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take away from it is how much fun it is to perform a serialized story.

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller.

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.

The great thing about country songs is the storytelling.

Anybody working on storytelling has my respect.

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

I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.