Quotes About Storytelling

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go.

Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.'

After my second film, 'Simhadri,' which was a very big hit, I made 'Sye,' a small college movie with a rugby union backdrop.

Not all stories are meant for the big screen.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

Watching Billy Connolly at the Hammersmith Apollo in the late 90s was a masterclass of long-form comedy.

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

The purpose of making a successful film is to blend entertainment with social content.

I enjoy doing comic roles that blend with the story. I am looking for cinema that is sensible and is entertaining and engaging, be it is comic or serious.

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over and over again, marvelling at how that story visually unfolded.

The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.

I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.

I thought 'Bobby Jasoos' was an extremely interesting film.

'Piku' is not at all a film in the Bollywood kind of way.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

You see, when I go on stage I perform with just a guitar and you have to have very strong material to hold an audience from getting bored or restless. One strong way of doing that is the story because everybody will listen to a story.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.