Storytelling Quotes
My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.
The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.
I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.
I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.
You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.
In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling.
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.
I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.
I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
