Top 22 Storyboard Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Storyboard Quotes from famous people such as John Boorman, Jacki Weaver, John Kricfalusi, Hayao Miyazaki, Daniel Espinosa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects,

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
John Boorman
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
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
I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn’t quite realize that this has happened. Don’t tell them about it.
Hayao Miyazaki
If you just storyboard something, you’ve already planned it, and you’re stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
Daniel Espinosa
As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
John Allison
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
Anthony Browne
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
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
I really don’t storyboard unless it’s an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.
John Lee Hancock
When I’m plotting out a book, I use a storyboard – I’ll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.
Janet Evanovich
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
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don’t understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
Patrice Leconte
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
In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don’t plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.
Mohanlal
We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It’s just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything.
Wes Ball
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don’t film; it can be a stiff move.
Anton Corbijn
You walk on a set, and you have no idea – that’s why I don’t storyboard. It’s all possible.
Barry Jenkins
I don’t storyboard like some. I mean, all directors are different. I plan meticulously – really meticulously.
Paul Greengrass
When I storyboard, they’re just fragments of thoughts. I write in three acts like a movie, so I have my plot points up on the preliminary storyboard.
Janet Evanovich
I don’t storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot – on the air, as we say – at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.
Arthur Penn
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