Quotes About Storytelling

I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in 'Pete's Dragon,' I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.

I love movies like 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' that are based on short novellas.

We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.

Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.

It was an absolute pleasure just to be able to tell my grandkids, 'Yep. I Superman-punched Vince McMahon right in the face twice.' You can put that on my mantle.

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.