Storytelling Quotes
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If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
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I really love storytelling.
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Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
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Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
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Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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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.
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Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
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I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!
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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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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.
