I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

I think there's a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the...

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

Sci-fi fans are so interested in your character and so attached to the world that you've created.

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new...

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international...

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.

There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible...

I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but certainly in a life capacity, I've been an avid viewer of television for...

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything...

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

When people are telling stories on screen, you can show the reactions of people, play it off those reactions, and it can be fun. But when it's someone just giving an opinion on things, even if the...

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory setting.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes...

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story...

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?