Quotes About Storytelling

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.