Quotes About Storytelling

I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

I read 'Preacher' once a year.

That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.

I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.

I always prefer a good script, be it a movie or drama script.

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.

On some level, some of the challenges end up being similar, which is when you have a very emotional scene to shoot. As an actor, you have to prepare a certain way, but you also have to prepare a certain way when you're a director because you have to be sure you're telling the whole story.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

That's what I look for in models: Someone who can tell a story and has a presence in front of the camera.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

'Jane the Virgin' is one of the most original shows that's been presented in the United States.

It's like, if you have a story that's already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we're telling that story, how we're presenting it to the world.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.