Telling Quotes
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.
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It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
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Telling. I thought I knew this.
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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Every smart / Is eased in telling.
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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
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I would like, in my life, to always be doing things I'm proud of. I know that probably won't happen all the time. But I'd prefer to be telling stories I can be proud of and understand why they're being told. I do watch a lot of films and TV, but sometimes I think: "Why the hell did you make that then?" I won't say what they are though.
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It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
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When you make movies, you've picked the most expensive art form, and somebody has to pay for it. You kind of owe it to them to at least let them know how you expect to make it as accessible to as many people as you can, given the story you're telling.
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
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I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
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I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling.
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It’s a little bit like what’s happening now — some innocent people can get caught up in this stuff; it’s very tricky. It was so not true. It was my dresser, and I don’t care if she’s listening — I probably shouldn’t be telling this, but I don’t care because it was so long ago and it’s gotta be over now. i just thought this was a joke. You know, they bought her off, which really made me mad.
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Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!
