Quotes About Storytelling

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it when a film doesn't feel like it's anchored too rigidly to that structure and you feel like anything could happen.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's world can be very complex, emotionally.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help.

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

Films don't change lives, nor are they made to change anything, their only purpose is to entertain.

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

I don't think you're ever ready to read your life back to yourself and try to make it entertaining for others.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

That energy and enthusiasm of telling a story is a different magic.

The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it's written that way.

Getting the right script that will work at the BO and relate to the audience is what matters. You also need a great director to bring the script to the screen in a form you envisioned it to be.