Backgrounds Quote by Eric Bana

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

— Nina Tassler

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an…

— Joan Didion

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

— Brad Pitt

I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see…

— Shonda Rhimes

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

— Bruce Feirstein

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be…

— Inbar Lavi

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every…

— Rupert Sanders

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

— Tanith Lee

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating…

— Tamzin Merchant