Quotes About Storytelling

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

After watching 'Stanley ka Dabba,' I just told myself that the one guy I have to work with is Amol Gupte. The reason being, his films are very simple and they create such a magical world around.

'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.