Quotes About Storytelling

The Irish are beautiful bullshitters. I mean, you know they're lying, they know you know they're lying, but they do it with so much charm, conviction, and energy that everyone feels kind of good about it.

By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.

Languages make possible both the living of a common history, and also the telling of it.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

I realize that I don't know where to start. Not because I'm unsure of my story, but because I'm not sure why I feel compelled to tell it in the first place. What can be achieved by unearthing the past?

Tru nodded, then started at the beginning. For the first time that morning, Hope seemed to emerge from her shell, escaping in the moment the

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.

Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love or hate out of your crowd.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I don't like message movies either.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

With all of our big-hit shows - like 'Big Bang Theory,' and even 'How I Met Your Mother' - when they first started, you have multiple characters to service, and you want to make sure that the audience has a chance to get the concept, get the emotional arc, and really engage with the relationships.

'StarCraft II' is a really great game. It appeals to players on multiple different levels.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

I love being able to tell a story visually. It's something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.