Quotes About Storytelling

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

Judaism is in all my books.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I remember walking into the editing room when I was a junior in college, and I watched the guy make cuts, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. He was just putting these shots together and telling the story, and it was amazing.

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.

I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.