Storytelling Quotes - Page 16

• Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Reading, Passion, Love Of Reading

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• The great thing about television is that you get to tell, like with "The Walking Dead", 16 hours worth of character-driven storytelling in less time than it takes to make a feature film. So, it really is a medium at least for storytellers who are passionate about not only the genre but also the character-driven genre stories. It's probably a better medium.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Walking Dead, Passionate, Film

  Source: deadline.com

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• Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

  Maria Tatar

  Hands, Magic, Enchantment

  Maria Tatar (2009). “Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now the storytelling's the same. You got different tools. That's all.

  David Lynch

  Technology, Different, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

  Laura Linney

  Fun, Fighting, Culture

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.

  Karyn Kusama

  Interesting, Kind, Horror

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to moment and some of your takes will be used and some of them won't. I think there are great films you can make with bad performances, and vice versa. There are all combinations of those things. It's really down to the director what happens, I think, so that's why it's really good to work with very talented, bold directors.

  Rachel Weisz

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

  Sol Stein

  Book, Writing, Tired

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• I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

  Walton Goggins

  Years, Gone, Ability

  "Walton Goggins' Unchained Melody". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors. I think indirectly I wanted to do it because of them. My grandfather would tell me stories about Tennessee Williams and actors he worked with in New York. He had such a respect for acting and such a love for storytelling about that world. I grew up hearing him tell tales of it.They were never encouraging me or discouraging me to take part. They were always feeding me with theater.

  Lydia Wilson

  Thinking, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been training like crazy with my trainer Decker Davis all the time, and we've been doing this new thing called Danger Train. It's kind of storytelling about the offseason training, there's a lot more to come with that. More than anything, from a nutrition aspect to the speed aspect to the strengthening aspect and, most importantly, to the mental aspect, we're always trying to grow exponentially. We're continuing to find new ways to do that.

  Russell Wilson

  Crazy, Always Trying, Training

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Storytelling is the important thing.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Important, Important Things

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• I think that's why it's difficult for women when they watch TV and we see one version of a woman who is attached at the hip to a guy, and that's kind of her whole thing. You kind of go, 'I don't relate to this, I don't feel this.' You know? Maybe somebody does, but not everyone. That's the other thing about storytelling, is you can't represent everybody. You know, you can't seek to do that. You have to tell stories that you're interested in talking about and characters that intrigue you.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

  Abraham Verghese

  Memories, Stories, Alive

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.272, Random House India

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• Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

  Patti Davis

  Teacher, Night, Light

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• The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there is a devilry in Thomas Harris' presentation - so it felt like it was completely honest and appropriate for the character. And we often talk in the writers' room, "Okay, there is the Hannibal as the devil explanation of that plot point, but we also need to ground that in a reality that is answerable to the physics of the storytelling."

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Character, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Blessed, Curiosity, Next

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

  David Plotz

  Numbers, People, Important

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

  Maya Angelou

  Stories, Trade

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• Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?

  Roland Barthes

  Father, Oedipus, Law

  Roland Barthes (2012). “How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Becauwse we really don't lov what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems - if you really loved it - you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not. ... Our present education is rotten because it teaches us to love Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people.

  Harry Crews

  Writing, People, Rotten

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• I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.

  James Wan

  Cameras, Needs, Suspense

  Source: collider.com

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• I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Matter, Shots

  Source: collider.com

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• An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

  Uri Shulevitz

  Writing, Heart, Order

  Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”

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