Quotes About Storytelling

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.

I'm an athlete, I'm funny, I'm creative, I can tell a story, I'm likable.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

I don't like albums; I like projects. I want to tell a story - I don't want to limit myself to 10 songs or four songs or whatever. I just tell a story and I want you to feel something. If it took me one song or if it took me four, call it however you want. So I call them projects.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.

When I shoot a film, I take my camera and put it among the characters and let it show you their world, their problems, their happiness and the little things that matter to them.

My philosophy is live life so you won't mind talking about it.

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.

A simple love story can be made into an interesting film if the film-maker can think differently.

If you're creating a story, it's a lovely sort of secret thing going on in your head.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.

Yes, you know Luke Skywalker isn't going to die in issue #3. But that doesn't mean you've seen every Luke Skywalker story there is to tell.

Fiction is just lying.

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.