Jules Feiffer Quotes

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.