Quotes About Storytelling

I've always felt that I wanted to make a Marvel film... I just want to make sure I'm not making an episode.

The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.

I have always believed that if a film has only two characters, but they do not make any sense, then the film's meaningless.

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

I love the medium of film.

Movies are an editor's medium.

Film, I think, is my medium.

TV is a writer's medium.

I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.

Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.

I want to be a part of films that elate me and resonate with me.

It resonates with me the way women tell stories, the way they see things, and the way they attach what they see to certain emotions.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

I reveal myself in my movies.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

In 2010, my kids came home telling these ridiculous stories about me they heard from school. I realized my kids didn't know my story, and they were hearing it from the goofballs at school.

Every time there is a movie that tells a South African story, it is done by someone who must be taught the right way of pronouncing 'Sawubona.' Enough is enough.

You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

Rob Zemeckis is an incredible director.