Quotes About Storytelling

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

If we can continue to tell stories where fans don't know what will happen next, I think that will be a plus in this 'Divas Revolution.'

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.