Mel Giedroyc Quotes

It takes two guys to tell a story, paint a picture, so our audience can be entertained and brought into the match. You need to suck people in emotionally to a match, and it takes both parties to paint that picture.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

People love stories. They need stories.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.