Jerry Lewis Quotes

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

For me, the first thing is script. When I heard 'Mom''s script, it really touched me and moved me. I felt really nice about the story. That's the reason I did the movie.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

The storyline has always been of paramount importance to me. The subject and climax of 'Phillauri' touched my heart.

A strong story can move me to tears, and it doesn't matter whether it's a science-fiction or fantasy world. It's about what happens to a person, the choices they make. That's what's interesting.

I'm taken by a story and a character. I'll read a script, and if it touches me and moves me and makes waves, that's why I'll choose it.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

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.

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.