Quotes About Storytelling

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

The more layers a story has, the better it is for the audience.

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

I'm a huge Ang Lee fan and a huge Larry McMurtry fan.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

It's all about letting the story take over.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

I was a good liar as a child.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.