Storytelling Quotes

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

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.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

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.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

'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.

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

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

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.

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.

The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.