Action Quote by Elmore Leonard

Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help…

— Janet Fitch

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

Whatever film it is, the geography has to be right. If I cannot establish it, I'll get lost. I wouldn't even understand it in…

— Vetrimaaran

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the…

— Martin Scorsese

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to…

— Tommy Lee Jones

You have to be very specific with the suggestions of how you want to show things, not just with dialogue but also place and…

— Lisa Joy

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

— Saul Bass

“Details are extremely important. A story without details is like an action movie without special effects.”

— Mark A. Roeder

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

— Stephen King

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich…

— Marion Dane Bauer