Quotes About Storytelling

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

TV's demands are different from those of films.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Film has to describe and show.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

I tell my stories the way I tell them in real life, the way I talk or describe things.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.