Beeban Kidron famous quotes

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Fables #Parables #Storyteller

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Technology #Irony

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Kings #Hollywood #Stories

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
-- Beeban Kidron

#People #Abuse #Duty

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Country #Children #Communication

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Thinking #Bigs

Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Answers #Film

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

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

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.