Aja Naomi King Quotes

Great writing makes great television.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

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.

My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.

I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.

The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.