Bryan Konietzko Quotes

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

Eventually, when I got the 'Meadowland' script, I saw something in it that made me think I could make something special out of it, something that could work with my style. Emotionally, I connected to it. I thought, 'If I feel this way just imagining it, maybe we can make that happen on screen and make people feel something when they watch it.'

A film should always at least be about something.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Film is a very intimate medium.