Bill Hader Quotes

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

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

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?

I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but not the emotions.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.