Graeme Base Quotes

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even know if we do anymore, as it all seems to be social media.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

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

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Entertainment and information work well together.

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

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

As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.

Strange thing, this television.

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.