However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.
I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to absorb life and take in life and be able to interpret it in a way that anybody in this room could say, "Man, that's my story. I can relate to that. "
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
I had full access to the material, and had a great relationship with Sean Bailey, the president of Disney productions. He really guided me through the licensing process of the footage. I made presentations to the various departments at the studio, and they were moved by Owen's [Suskind] story.
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
We are the stories we tell ourselves
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.
I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.
I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.