Quotes About Storytelling

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in 'Photograph.'

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.

The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.

History picks interesting messengers.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.