Quotes About Storytelling

We're always looking for ways to use technologies to open up new creative expressions for us artistically. So we're constantly thinking about where something like VR may lead us in storytelling or what kind of tool that gives us as storytellers.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to a paycheck than in doing work they can be proud of.

People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.

When I made 'Pizza,' all I had in my mind was to make the film reach as many people as possible.

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

An important part of my story is that I didn't walk out of Planned Parenthood immediately after witnessing the ultrasound-guided abortion. It is made to appear that way in the film, 'Unplanned,' because they are trying to fit 10 years of my life into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.

Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.