Quotes About Storytelling

I've always written short stories.

I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.

I don't know what will come my way but I will continue to tell stories that excite me. I feel human beings are same everywhere, they work from a gamut of emotions the rest is just backdrop.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

Ive always loved the tradition of murder ballads.

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

Some stories are meant to be experienced by everyone and language and culture are no bar.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not trying to bash you over the head with what I have to say.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.