Quotes About Storytelling

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

I like romance in films. I like love in films.

What is film-making about if not romance?

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.

My roots are documentaries.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

In film, you can have sad endings.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

You get more time to see the growth of a character in a series, there's no scope for that in films.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

If you listen to a score from beginning to end, you should envision the entire film in your head.

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.