Quotes About Storytelling

I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever.

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.

It's not easy to tell a life story in two-and-a-half hours flat.

I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through songs, look at our folk cultures.

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.