Stephanie Allain Quotes

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

I feel like I get drawn to - and I know it sounds cheesy but - I love storytelling.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

Anybody working on storytelling has my respect.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.