Quotes About Storytelling

Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.

Video is the most interesting and engaging way to share an idea with others.

When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It's harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.

When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with.

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.

I think you have to serve a lot of masters when you're doing a video game: you're not just telling a linear story or doing something that's all action.

There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.

With video games, imagine it's not locked - it's a TV show people can reach in and do this and do that, and you need to have dialog for all of that stuff.

'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.

When I started making Minecraft videos, there was already a ton of them out there. But when I started introducing the storytelling element, which no one had done before, that's when my Minecraft traffic started picking up.