Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

Audiences still crave storytelling.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell whatever the story changes, but you're still all telling stories.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

Theatre and cinema have been major influences in my life.

Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.

Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.

Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.