Quotes About Storytelling

I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.

The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts.

In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.

I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.

Encourage your friend and family member who are queer parents of color to post their stories and share it with the world. It's time for us to be seen.

I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it's boring. There's nothing to talk about afterwards.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Whether it's an FBI agent or a maid, if they want me to wear a pink tutu, I might have a few questions, but I'll wear it for the sake of the story.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

When you have quick scenes, it becomes difficult to ascertain where your character fits and where they're going. I always enjoy scenes that have a movement to them.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

The new national campfire - radio.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

If you played 'Heavy Rain,' there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don't have control.