Quotes About Storytelling

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I'm interviewing so that they feel comfortable enough to open up and share their story with me.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I feel like now is great time for a rom-com because the genre is sort of being opened up to being told by people that look different from each other or who have different orientations.

I got a dollhouse when I was six, and my sister would always say, 'You realize you're just talking to yourself. What are you doing?' That kind of opened up this creative need to tell stories.

I don't think there's ever a story the MCU tells that couldn't be expanded. They always leave it with some lovely doors that get opened.

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.