Jason Aaron Quotes

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

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I just want to tell great stories.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

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

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

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.

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

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

You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.