Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) host talks annually that have brought out such luminaries and Bill Gates, J.J. Abrams and Bill Clinton in the past. The speeches are generally made available online, but none have been more widely praised and shared on social media than this week’s talk by Andrew Stanton, the director of Disney’s John Carter (which hits theaters today).In the talk, titled “My Life In Story, Backwards,” Stanton tells people that the key to storytelling is to make the viewer (or reader, whatever) care about the characters so that they’re invested. It’s a great talk, worth checking out, and lots of folks in the comics industry–from Ron Marz, who has been a bit John Carter-centric of late, to Brian Michael Bendis–have retweeted the link and recommended it to fans.
