Storytelling Quotes

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.