Storyteller Quotes
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
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My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
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We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
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I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
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I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
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I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
