Quotes About Storytelling

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.