Storytelling Quotes
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The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.
Mike Mitchell -
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.
William Maxwell
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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 -
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.
Sarah Kay -
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 -
Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
Simon McBurney -
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 -
Progressive rock is a flexible medium for dramatic storytelling because it lends itself perfectly to the extended song format.
David Longdon
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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 -
Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
Carmen Naranjo -
Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.
Rik Mayall -
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 -
The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
Cecil B. DeMille -
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
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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 -
Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
Catherynne M. Valente -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
Roberta Williams
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Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.
Cheyenne McCray -
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 -
I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.
Jill Soloway -
My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
Russell Banks