Quotes About Storytelling

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me. I did 'Lust Stories', 'Made in Heaven' and 'Gully Boy'.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Certain things work on paper held together with staples. Comics use bright colors to make things leap off the page, but movies are a different medium.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I love to watch entertaining films with larger than life characters and hence enjoy making such kind of movies.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.