Steven Knight Quotes

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

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

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

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.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

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.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

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.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.