Storytelling famous quotes
05-22-2025
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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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.
-- Alan Ball -
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
-- Angela Bettis -
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
-- Armistead Maupin -
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
-- Billy Campbell -
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
-- Bradley Cooper -
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point
-- Brian De Palma -
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.
-- Carlton Cuse -
The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling,
-- Cecil B. DeMille -
Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.
-- Cheyenne McCray -
Storytelling is about listening in any media.
-- Chris Vance -
Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
-- Danny Harris -
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
-- Donald Davis -
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
-- Donna Tartt -
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
-- E. L. James -
Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
-- Harriet Lerner -
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
-- Harry Lloyd -
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
-- Holly Near -
Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.
-- Ian Mckellen -
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
-- J. J. Abrams -
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
-- Jennifer McMahon -
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
-- Julianna Baggott -
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
-- Justin Kirk -
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
-- Lee Child -
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.
-- Li-Young Lee -
There is no greater power on this earth than story.
-- Libba Bray -
The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum -
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
-- Margaret Atwood -
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
-- Margaret Wise Brown -
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
-- Margot Asquith -
The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.
-- Matt Smith -
With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'
-- Melissa Rosenberg -
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
-- Michael Scott -
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
-- Mike Figgis -
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
-- Neil Jordan -
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.
-- Orlando Bloom -
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
-- Orson Scott Card -
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
-- Osamu Dazai -
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
-- Patrick Ness -
The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.
-- Paulo Coelho -
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.
-- Randall Wallace -
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
-- Ray LaMontagne -
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
-- Robbie Robertson -
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
-- Russell Banks -
I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.
-- Ruzwana Bashir -
Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.
-- Sanaa Lathan -
You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.
-- Sandra Dallas -
I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.
-- Scott Eastwood -
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
-- Ted Lange -
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
-- Ted Rall -
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
-- Terry Brooks -
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
-- Tom Brokaw -
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
-- V. S. Pritchett -
It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.
-- Val McDermid -
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
-- Walt Disney -
I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
-- Walton Goggins -
Science is the storytelling of our time.
-- William Irwin Thompson -
Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.
-- Alrick Brown -
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
-- Christina Baldwin -
Sci-fi has just become an effects-fest, and the story has taken a back seat to all that eye candy. To me, that's not really storytelling; that's just showcasing the latest gadgetry.
-- Daniel Myrick -
I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.
-- David Eick -
I love crosscut parallel storytelling, like we did in Blue Valentine. I love how Alejandro González Iñárritu has done it, and Quentin Tarantino, and Francis Ford Coppola, and all the way back to D.W. Griffith - this parallel editing is an effective way to tell stories. It's like juggling, like keeping a lot of balls in the air and seeing how they come down.
-- Derek Cianfrance -
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.
-- Frances Stark -
I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.
-- John Kahrs -
I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.
-- John Musker -
We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.
-- Joshua Oppenheimer -
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.
-- Lizz Wright -
The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.
-- Miroslava Duma -
There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.
-- Susanne Wuest -
I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.
-- Terry Kinney -
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
-- Tim O'Brien -
The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.
-- Tye Sheridan -
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
-- Valerie Sayers -
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
-- Bryan Fuller -
I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.
-- Abby Huntsman -
To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.
-- Paul F. Tompkins -
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.
-- Elise M. Boulding -
I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.
-- Fede Alvarez -
Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in front of them. It's ancient entertainment, ancient storytelling and oral history - now we're doing it on YouTube.
-- Rosario Dawson -
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
-- Geoffrey S. Fletcher -
I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.
-- James Wan
