Jeffrey Wright Quotes

The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

I go wherever the good story is.

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

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

When I started thinking about 'Mr. Robot,' I thought about it as a movie, and I thought about the complete arc, and that is the one story I'm going to tell.

As a storyteller, I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction. My dream was to put the audience in the shoes of the main protagonists, let them make their own decisions, and by doing so, let them tell their own stories.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.

When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition in their network, and they value production value as much as we did, and that that would be a perfect place to do a show of this scope and this ambition.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.

Every film is a journey.

The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.