Storytelling Quotes - Page 29

• I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Reading, Ideas, Childhood

  Source: collider.com

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• The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

  Michael Jackson

  Teacher, Writing, Class

  "Michael Jackson: 'I am scared of my father'". Interview with Shmuley Boteach, www.nbcnews.com.

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• I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

  Mel Gibson

  Jobs, Fun, Stories

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

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• I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

  Eugene Mirman

  Thinking, Russia, Anecdotes

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

  Karen Armstrong

  Long, People, Stories

  "Practical Compassion". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.yesmagazine.org. April 12, 2012.

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• It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

  Osamu Dazai

  Talent, Irresponsible, Crafty

  Osamu Dazai (2013). “Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu”, p.169, BookBaby

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• Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

  James Berardinelli

  Adventure, Character, Epic

  "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

  Walt Disney

  Art, Language, Animation

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• Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Games, Trying

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• Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.

  Rachael Ray

  Cheer, Food, People

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• I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me telling a story that I felt most qualified to tell. And I loved it, and I'd love to do something else someday, probably more narrative-based. But I'm in no rush.

  Eric Bana

  Lying, Long, Frustrated

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

  Matt Dillon

  Character, Long, People

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.

  Holly Hunter

  Dream, Spiritual, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.

  Henning Mankell

  Dream, Animal, Men

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• Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

  Henning Mankell

  Wind, Humanity, Listening

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• To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

  Ben Marcus

  Circles, People, Misunderstood

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.327, Granta Books

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• Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

  Joe Rohde

  Adventure, Animal, Add

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• Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Tvs, Looks

  Source: variety.com

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• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

  Benjamin Walker

  Teacher, Art, Odds

  Source: collider.com

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• My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Mother, Stories, Oral Tradition

  "'Headless Woman' Director Lucrecia Martel: My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2009.

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• If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Jobs, Doe, Actors

  "Cate Blanchett, Peter Sarsgaard and Andrew Dice Clay Talk Blue Jasmine, Meeting and Working with Woody Allen, Plus Allen’s Best Female Protagonists". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

  Kurt Sutter

  Kids, Essentials, Television

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• Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

  Kurt Sutter

  Drama, Reality, Fiction

  "Sons Of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter talks about plunging into the underworld with Outlaw Empires". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Brother, Children, Years

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2009.

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• While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story.

  Hank Stuever

  Horror Stories, Fans, American Horror Story

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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