Quotes About Storytelling

I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

The right way to enjoy 'Heavy Rain' is really to make one thing because it's going to be your story. It's going to be unique to you. It's really the story you decided to write.

'Heavy Rain' is a cousin of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story. Since Hurricane Katrina, we didn't really have nobody that said, 'I'm gonna tell New Orleans' story, and I'm gonna stick to New Orleans.'

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

'Yeh Hai Aashiqui - Siyappa Ishq Ka' has become a part of who I am. I will be narrating the stories, and as a narrator, I get to experience each story up close and personal and go through the same range of emotions as the characters.

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

We see a lot of gory deaths on 'Game of Thrones.'

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will make their own content, if no one else will do it for them.

For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

I love film, any kind of genre.