Story Relevance Quotes

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

I think what I look for in a script, it's the relatability quotient that matters the most.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

There is no point in doing a lengthy role if there is no importance in it.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story.

If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.

There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

In any story universe, you don't just want to keep adding to it when there are places and planets that exist that will already achieve the same thing for you story-wise. You don't want to just keep making it bigger for no good reason.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.