Quotes About Storytelling

When I went to AI New England in Boston, I used to do my mixtapes, and honestly, if you look back at any of my mixtapes, every single mixtape tells a story.

My father was adept at making up limericks about place names we encountered on holidays or others using the names of new people we met.

Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every night from beginning to end.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

When you're a co-host, you've got to consider what the other person is saying and take the next step and get the laugh or get to the end of the story. You've got to make it happen and then move on to the next story.

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.

I once met a person three nights in a row and she told me the same story three times over. Unless you're discovering a new continent, there is no way you have anything new to tell people you bump into serially.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

When we were making games in the early '90s for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, popular games didn't have any real story.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

I feel like with the first 'Insidious' film we had a massive cache of stories and scares that we'd built up over the years. It was like a band, you know they say a band has forever to write their first album because no one cares.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

They already knew that they would be telling people about the morning for a long time to come, maybe for the rest of their lives, and the taxi ride was the first attempt at a first draft of a story that would have to satisfy parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren.

But Tony was a storyteller, and he knew that if you looked at any narrative closely enough you could trace the unraveling back and back and back—right to the very beginning, if the story was good enough.