Quotes About Storytelling

A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

I go straight into shooting with a script that's 80 per cent complete and I wait for my characters to grow on me before I finalise the climax.

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

Art cinema is easier to do as situations in it are closer to real life.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

If people leave the house wanting to see a comedian, they want to see someone speak out for themselves and share true stories from their life.

I love pure joke-tellers, but if I go to see a comedian for a full show, I want to feel I know them more than when I came through the door.

Comedians are always narrating the story of the people. Always.

You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep.