Quotes About Storytelling

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

I always want to talk about real life, not about material possessions. I've got to tell the story of the people for the people and not for celebrity or fame.

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

I do live with the very real possibility that we don't have endless stories to tell.

When the script of 'Nine' came along, I saw that there's a possibility of making something that is genuinely new and entertaining at the same time.

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Something a lot of people probably don't know is 'Chapter One' did have the idea to make a post-credit scene, which was Beverly Marsh picking up the phone. So, 27 years later, post credit, you would see a phone ringing.

Post 'Laila Majnu,' I was just sitting at home because I wanted to be part of a story that is as special as 'Bulbbul.'

I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too many words can ruin the story.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.