Adrian Tomine Quotes

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and different... the way that Wes is expanding his talents to another dimension with each film is just wow.

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.