You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.
I think animation can tell more than live action.
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.
Film and television are major vehicles for American storytelling, and America is the biggest exporter and influencer in the world in terms of telling stories.
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.
My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.
In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't.
Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being told.
I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell whatever the story changes, but you're still all telling stories.
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.
