Quotes About Storytelling

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

The best defense is a good story.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.