Quotes About Storytelling

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

I like going back and writing fiction.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.

'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.