Quotes About Storytelling

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

I love 'Archie' comics.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

'Stree' is an entertaining film, but it has strong commentary about women.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

One of my first commercials was for a Samsung cellphone. It was made as a mini-movie.

The great movies and the great commercials always work on every single level.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being told.

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music and find that way of telling a story to be really compelling as well.

You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.

One thing Vince McMahon does, and he does a lot of things great, but he knows how to create great television, very compelling television.

Kyunki' will never end. The way the story is going I don't see an end. People always complain that it's dragging along but they have to watch it every night!

I like films to be complete in their written form.