Best 965 quotes in «storytelling quotes» category

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

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

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.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

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.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

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

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

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.

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.

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.

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

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

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

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

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.

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

The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.

The great thing about television is that you get to tell, like with "The Walking Dead", 16 hours worth of character-driven storytelling in less time than it takes to make a feature film. So, it really is a medium at least for storytellers who are passionate about not only the genre but also the character-driven genre stories. It's probably a better medium.

The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now the storytelling's the same. You got different tools. That's all.

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

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

They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.

Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work.

A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.

(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story.

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.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you your intellect. These are things that you have . They're not things that you are . Therefore you have to start to become aware of the different requirements that human beings have, the different areas that they like to be satisfied in. Which means becoming aware of yourself. I mean, as a writer you're gonna have to understand pretty much the whole universe. But the best place to start is by understanding the inner universe. The entire universe – for one thing – only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality. So. To understand the universe there's worse advice than that which was carved above the shrine of the Delphi oracle. Where it just said: “Know thyself”. Understand yourself. Know thyself is a magical goal, but like I say to me there is very little difference between magic and creative art in any sense – the laws of one apply perfectly well to the other.

A book is a compilation of unexpressed expressions to connect the unknown knowns

A blank slate puts the author's imagination to work by using his mind's eye to record and examine, and ultimately report on, a world others cannot see.

Accept nothing. Challenge everything.

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.

A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot...

After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse. All I need is to write. Because,'Poetry forgives.