Quotes About Storytelling

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories.

Telling this story will be painful. In fact, I do not know if I can tell it truthfully, though I'll try. I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family.

Our family has always loved fairy tales. There is something ugly and true in them. They hurt, they are strange, but we cannot stop reading them, over and over.