The Storyteller Quotes

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.