Quotes About Storytelling

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

Guy Ritchie likes to ground things in realism.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

I'd like to be part of out-of-the-box films like 'Shahid.' I see myself being part of realistic cinema.

I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

'Indigo Prophecy' already brought a lot of new features to the traditional adventure genre, including the Action system, MultiView, Bending Stories, etc. 'Heavy Rain' will include features like advanced physics and AI, realistic characters and living environments.

I shattered the notion that a movie had to be advertised with realistic elements from the story.

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts' content.

For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes to write his script.

It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

Everyone in my family has a weird leg in the industry. My grandpa was a director and my grandma was a third AD, so you'd always hear stories growing up just of being on set and of actors.

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.