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• I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, White, Russia

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• 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

  Art, Southern, Listening

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.

  Theresa Rebeck

  Moving, Feelings, Brain

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• The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

  Dick Wolf

  Book, Writing, Character

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• One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Kings, Years, Stories

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• I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

  Amanda McBroom

  Art, Hbo, Ears

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• Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

  Howard Gardner

  Important, Use, Narrative

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• To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.

  Mark Canton

  Technology, Wish, Overwhelmed

  "The SUNDAY FUNNIES: James Cameron Hates Piranha 3D and Taylor Lautner Lawsuit Updates" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 5, 2010.

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• I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

  Hayley Atwell

  Drama, School, Men

  "Hayley Atwell Interview - BRIDESHEAD REVISTED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 8, 2008.

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• To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

  Billy Campbell

  Brands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

  Billy Campbell

  Nice, People, Bumps

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

  P. L. Travers

  Bird, Flying, Gone

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• I'm a fan of great storytelling.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Fans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Culture, Grew Up, Grew

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• Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

  Clare Bowen

  Singing, Acting, Balls

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• For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Giving, People, Want

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella Rossellini, if you know your cinema history, have taken their clothes off. There's nothing wrong with nudity, per se, if it's part of the storytelling and it's eloquent and it says something about the raw humanity of the story.

  Natalie Dormer

  Taken, Successful, Our Generation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

  Jeff Probst

  Book, Adventure, Kids

  "Probst Dishes 'Survivor' Drama, 'Men' Appearance". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. November 13, 2013.

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• What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in
  community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

  Ben Sollee

  Giving Up, Rocks, People

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• I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

  Terry Kinney

  Thinking, Film, Shots

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Thinking, Space, Important

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying to guess and decipher how one story will connect with another.

  Tim Kring

  Past, Trying, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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