Quotes About Storytelling

I think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.

I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

So much TV is drawn out.

I always loved dressing up and telling stories.

Most of my films have been very character driven.

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

I can't look at 'WALL-E' or 'Finding Nemo' or 'Up' and look at in the same way as people outside of the company would look at it. Each one of them had angst.

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work.

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.