Quotes About Storytelling

It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

I'm a huge fan of not doing world-building or exposition. My eyes glaze over when I see it.

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, but I like a few within the genre.

There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

I love using drama and humour.

I would love to see an adaptation of 'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer. It has all the things I want in a film; love, travel, humour.

I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

My mother got the courage to speak to hundreds of people about her story. I knew if she could do it I could do it, too.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

I was at my dermatologist, and she asked me what I was doing next. I told her I was about to do something called 'The Hunger Games.' She gasped and started calling everyone into the room, and they all came running.

Go and I had a game inspired by our mom, who had a habit of telling such outrageously mundane, endless stories that Go was positive she had to be secretly fucking with us. For about ten years now, whenever Go and I hit a conversation lull, one of us would break in with a story about appliance repair or coupon fulfillment.

Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word—WRITER—anytime

I wasn't entirely sure about Meredith's assessment. Some people would love to have the killer be a guy born and raised in Wind Gap. Someone they went fishing with once, someone they were in Cub Scouts with. Makes a better story.

Thanks to George R. R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story.