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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People love stories. They need stories.
There is something in human beings that loves stories.
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
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