Julianna Baggott Quotes

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

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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.

It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.

Irrespective of the language and industry, what I seek from a project is good story and role.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

A sad truth I learned as a DP starting out was that it doesn't matter how beautiful I make it if the story and performance are not there. That should be number one.

I just read the script; everything else just follows. Content is the most important thing for me.

I like to have fun with my videos and performances, that's the most fun part when it comes to the music. I get to show off my character.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

There are very few films that work like a novel.