Quotes About Storytelling

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

Visually, I want to try everything. But I believe that every shot of my films really expresses what I think about the story and the character. The most important thing is the story, not the images.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

'Baadshaho' is not an imaginative film, it's real and made it an entertaining way.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?

Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the idea germinates, by the end of the story, it accounts for hardly anything in the book.

I am a filmmaker. My job is to make films. When something excites you - a story or characterisation - you immediately forget about everything else. You only think how to make a movie out of it. The economics come only later. You shouldn't let money dictate the kind of films you should make.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

I really believe in the power of cinema, and with it comes a responsibility to impart some sort of message for the better.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

I like people who are authentically themselves, and they own it, and most importantly, they own their story.

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.