Quotes About Storytelling

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

Before anything else, my favorite thing as a fan of music was to make up my own story as to what it means.

My favorite thing about daytime, and 'Days' in particular, is that the door is always open for characters to reappear no matter how they left.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

I wrote 'Paava Kadhaigal' the same way I wrote my feature films 'Irudhi Sutru' or 'Soorarai Potru.' I was more honest in this film rather, because you can afford to be real and get away with it.

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I'm good at the leadership part. But I've always said that I'm a terrible manager. I'm not good at giving feedback.

I had my daughter in 2013, we moved to L.A. and there's just lots of things that were happening that were feeding into the desire to tell a story that's more personal and to talk about what it's like to be a father.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.

M. Night Shyamalan can draw quite a few people to quite a few things, and having the opportunity to work with him is very cool.

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.