Quotes About Storytelling

I think it's quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

We are continuing to collaborate with Disney on future films and other opportunities.

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

The majority of people are straight, and movies, with their bigger budgets and burdensome marketing costs, will try to appeal to as many people as they can. As the means of production and distribution become more democratized with advances in technology, more gay stories will make their way to the mainstream.

What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.

The thing that I like about action sequences is that if they're done well, you get to know more about the character in those few minutes than you do through 10 minutes of exposition.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.