Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
I've been doing this for 50 years now and instead of retiring I'm busier than ever, though perhaps not as fast at getting things done. It's all terrifically interesting and very satisfying.
But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and the words on the signpost say: βOnce upon a time β¦ - Isis lecture, 2003
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
Some of the storytelling we did in 'Battlestar Galactica,' to graft that onto 'Star Trek,' it would have required changing the entire format of the show and, really, a different taste of the show.
I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.
For me, 'The Hobbit' is an object lesson in storytelling, both in terms of characterization and story structure. It is an exemplar of storytelling in that regard.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.
I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.
The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.