Quotes About Storytelling

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

My idea is to write a story where every character is well etched out, irrespective of their gender. Because they all are human beings and stories are on the situation and human mind.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

I am a filmmaker and I have no issues with anyone, I am a director and I am just here to tell a great story.

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

I want to hear LeBron James's Uber stories.

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

My relationship with fashion has always been that each of us stars in our own movies and costumes ourselves to play the part we want. You take blouses and jeans and dresses, and you put them together, and they tell your story.

People at Marvel and DC, we're rooting for each other. And when we're friends, like me and Jeff Lemire, or Charles Soule, or even Dan Slott - it doesn't matter if you're Marvel or DC. You'll talk story with each other, and there's like an agreement that you're just helping each other out.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.

We have to tell our story at 'Ebony' and 'Jet' like no one else can. We have the authenticity; we have the believability. And I think that's what we have to own.

The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

I wouldn't call the Joker exactly easy to write.

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.