Storyboard Quotes

#1. A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

Tom Kenny

#2. I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Harvey Pekar

#3. The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

Craig McCracken

#4. We think that helps bring it up to a place where our storyboard writers then get the opportunity to be able to take that energy and really bring it to the show. I credit that entirely to our cast.

Jeph Loeb

#5. A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

Jacki Weaver

#6. I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get.

Mike Judge

#7. In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination.

Michael Uslan

#8. As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

John Allison

#9. Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

Jade Hassoune

#10. The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance,

Martin Scorsese

#11. I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

John Boorman

#12. I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Werner Herzog

#13. The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

John Kricfalusi

#14. After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

Daniel Barber

#15. We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

David Karp

#16. After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Twohy

#17. One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

John Kricfalusi

#18. I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#19. I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

Patrice Leconte

#20. I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

Anton Corbijn

#21. Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.

Signe Baumane

#22. The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

Anthony Browne

#23. I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

Cary Fukunaga

#24. It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

Pete Docter

#25. I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

M. Night Shyamalan

#26. Some people need to be in the presence of truth, I think, others beauty, and we were each discovering on which side the other one fell.

Ruth Curry

#27. After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

Howard Staunton

#28. The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?

Charlotte Eriksson

#29. Patience is the key to joy.

Rumi

#30. Stop preventing philosophers from possessing money; no one has condemned wisdom to poverty. I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.

Seneca.

#31. Voice rough with lust, he said, "I have one treasure." He slowed, pinning my gaze with his starry one. "And she owns my soul

Kresley Cole