Quotes About Storytelling

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of people who have not been the focus of the story, it flips everything around.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.

Hopefully, when we're done with the 'Korra' saga we can put our stamp on a movie.

Lots of people do stand up shows with no narrative, but I love a beginning, a middle and an end.

I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

I will tell the stork-man.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.