Storytelling Quotes

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.

The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.