Quotes About Storytelling

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It's not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out of love, and back in love.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

Being in love is such a nice feeling,and to be able to see that feeling on-screen is just nice, especially when it's a great story.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.