Storytelling Quotes - Page 25

• The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

  Kevin Costner

  Western, Depends, Preserves

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• I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.

  Erica Brown

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

  Jason Rezaian

  Real, People, Stories

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real people are people in positions of great prominence or power or adverse situations, and sometimes it's just normal folks who help illuminate a situation, a place, a culture. And for me, that's always been the best way of telling a story.

  Jason Rezaian

  Real, People, Culture

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better.

  Karla Souza

  People, Together, Life Is

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.

  Bradford Cox

  School, Interesting, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Thinking, People, Fantasy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema orthodoxies that came into play really in the '60s. That moment of performance is a tremendous opportunity to make visible something hitherto invisible, which is how people want to be seen. How do they see themselves? What are the scripts, fantasies, genres by which they imagine themselves? How is storytelling part of what we are as human beings? We wouldn't kill each other en masse if it weren't for storytelling. We wouldn't be able to live with ourselves.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

  Karla Souza

  Art, People, Would Be

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling into that of "writing," the major distinction between the two to me being that the former gives one the facts, but the latter tries to recreate the sensation and complexities of life within the fluidity of consciousness and experience. As far as I'm concerned, that's really all I've been trying to do formally for the past decade or more with comics, and it's certainly time-consuming, since it has to be done with drawings, not words.

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Past, Giving

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• The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Going Away, Online

  Source: www.marandapleasantmedia.com

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• I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

  Alexandra Byrne

  Thinking, Color, Costumes

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

  Nicole Kidman

  Art, Love Is, Connecting

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 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

  Dream, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

  Nicole Kidman

  Stories, Way, Love Story

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

  Jay Baruchel

  Weekend, Watches, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can find a way to build those into the story, then the story becomes a process of deconstructing and heightening and sometimes changing those notions and that makes dramatic tension. The initial statement of your position, and then letting reality act on you to change it, is pretty good storytelling.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Reality, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People are storytelling creatures. We like stories that go somewhere, and therefore we like trends - because trends are things that either get better or get worse, so we can either rejoice or lament. But we mistakenly depict many things as trends moving in some direction. We take the "full house" of variation in a system and try to represent it as a single number, when in fact what we should be doing is studying the variation as it expands and contracts. If you look at the history of the variation in all its complexity, then you see there's no trend.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Moving, People, House

  Interview With Michael Krasny, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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• Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking, Water, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very depressing, particularly the history of slavery. If slavery is presented properly, it's a great story. But I think that within the commercial world of storytelling in which I live, there haven't been many strong works that discuss slavery in ways that are palatable and funny and interesting to the reader.

  James McBride

  Depressing, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

  James Redford

  Art, Important, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

  Richard Linklater

  Long, Trying, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Race, Age

  "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Writing, Thinking, Track

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Character, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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