Can do Quote by Rick Alverson

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about…

— Kevin Wilson

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a…

— George Saunders

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And…

— Edward Zwick

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason you get…

— Louis Menand

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid