Quotes About Storytelling

I make film to make time pass.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

But that's one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.