Quotes About Storytelling

I identify with all the Grimm fairy-tale girls, every single one. I always have. Those were the only stories I understood and the only stories I kneew how to tell. I did not know there were other possibilitiees.

Annie Barrows

It's a privilege to tell stories on film. It can be a great community to live a professional life. All of us that do this work should feel very grateful that we can.

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?

I hope people will like 'The Conjuring 2' because I think it is a very natural and organic progression of the first movie.

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.

I just feel like when a good project comes along, I'm not going to discriminate against it because it's television or because it's a film. I never want to say no to something just because of the area that it's in. If it's a good story or I think it's going to be exciting to play or exciting to be a part of, then I'm going to be a part of it.

The point is that a filmmaker is like a journalist in projecting reality in the true sense of the word. Only thing is he dramatically packages it to make more effect.

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.

All of us are hungry to be a part of great stories. There are some fortunate ones who get it early in their career, and there are some, for whom it takes a little while to get to be even considered for a part which could be promising.

I can't physically put someone over, but I can feel very confident in my ability to tell a story through a promo.

Every step is basically a word, especially with musical theatre, because you're not doing it for dance's sake, you're promoting a story - and, more than that, a moral. You're propelling a story.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

Vada Chennai' is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.

I guess that if I was a normal cartoonist who did things properly, I'd think up the background information first and then come up with the story. Saying that, you'd think that I don't really think through anything.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.