Quotes About Storytelling

The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually happen every day in our backyards and in our communities.

I was doing 'Homeland' and read the first two episodes, and all I wanted was episode three to know what would happen next.

At the age of 10 I wrote and starred in a play that I took around to local old people's homes.

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

I think that the world of making movies and how movies get made has certainly changed and evolved over the years. So we're just trying to keep up with it and keep telling our stories in whatever way we can, by hook or by crook.

I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.

'Badalte Rishton ki Daastan' has enough masala to keep the audiences hooked from day one. It is a proper family drama.

What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

I know the difference between someone coming up to you on the street and saying, 'Hey, you're that dude, right. Yes, that's what I thought,' and somebody coming up and saying, 'Big fan of the show. Big fan of that character.' And that's nice. You're out there telling stories, you're hoping to find an audience, and it's very appreciated.

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

I never shoot my movies like I'm shooting 'a horror movie,' I shoot them like dramas. Dramas and then something horrible happens.

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don't ever really feel enough to actually care.

It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.