Quotes About Storytelling

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

Once upon a time, is how stories begin...

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love, ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

A good story can travel in time and borders it hits you no matter where you are.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

IF YOU WANT A STORYBOOK ENDING, stop—now—and remember them in that tender moment. Be content to know that they embarked on a series of adventures throughout the West and that they stayed together through thick and thin for forty-five years. But know this as well: If their story ended here, no one would remember them at all. Where a tale begins and where it ends matters. Who tells the story, and why . . . That makes all the difference.

A tale begins and where it ends, matters. Who tells the story and why, that makes all the difference.