Storytelling Quotes

• How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Care
  • Remembered
  • I Love You

• I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.

  

  Michael Schultz
  • Opportunity
  • Function
  • Around

• Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

  

  Michael Shermer
  • Stories
  • Humans
  • Programming

• Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Listening
  • Save
  • Telling

• Progressive rock is a flexible medium for dramatic storytelling because it lends itself perfectly to the extended song format.

  

  David Longdon
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Storytelling

• Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

  

  David Crabb
  • Character
  • Building
  • Scenes

• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  

  Erik Adigard
  • Design
  • Philosophy
  • Propaganda

• Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

  

  Erskine Caldwell
  • Knowledge
  • Learned
  • Storytelling

• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  

  Studs Terkel
  • People
  • Form
  • Hungry

• Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

  

  Cheyenne McCray
  • Beautiful
  • Storytelling
  • Sensual

• I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Audience
  • Facts
  • Performances

• 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
  • Taken
  • Eye
  • Candy

• There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Humans
  • Directors
  • Filmmaking

• Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Trying
  • Dialogue
  • Storytelling

• The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • World
  • Art
  • Storytelling

• The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.

  

  Mike Mitchell
  • Musical
  • Continue
  • Narrative

• Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Sometimes

• Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Storytelling
  • Pleasures

• Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Eye
  • Pride
  • Fate

• You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Character
  • Storytelling
  • Impetus

• I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

  

  Rhea Seehorn
  • Writing
  • School
  • Grades

• Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Community
  • Enough
  • Embrace

• I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

  

  Roberta Williams
  • Believe
  • Would
  • Storytelling

• I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Storytelling

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