Vikramaditya Motwane Quotes

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

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

I've always believed that the script is the boss.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

It's always the story that interests me.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader than just figuring out a song. You're also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.