Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I suppose the key for me is about opening up experiences and untold stories to audiences.

If the human story in 'STM' is relatable, it will work.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'

Mere recording of an event will not make it a historical document. It will become obsolete with time. Only those that emotionally connect with the audience will stand the test of time.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with... or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. That's what people will do, people will naturally tear stuff apart because they're trapped with it, they paid money for it. And they came into it wanting to love it. So all you can really do is piss off the audience. Unless you do things right.