Tim Minchin Quotes

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

I always like to tell a story.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're lucky enough to get it, like with 'Lost,' that's what I follow.

I see myself as a story teller.

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Audiences still crave storytelling.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

I don't want to work on any games that don't have some kind of story component because that is the draw for me.

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'

Irrespective of the language and industry, what I seek from a project is good story and role.

I tell a good story.