Storytelling Quotes - Page 30

• I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Different, World

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Tired, Thinking, Long

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• I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Adorable, Addresses, Way

  "Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Swedish daily newspaper, May 2002.

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• The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.

  Jennifer Beals

  Party, Home, Creating

  Speech at 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, San Francisco, California, May 10, 2008.

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• Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Film And Television, Ends

  The L Word Finale Special, March 08, 2009.

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• That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

  Jane Campion

  Art, School, Reality

  Interview with Katherine Dieckmann and Michael Tabb, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Art, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Expression, Sound, Silent

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• The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Heart, Commitment, Media

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• I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

  David Fincher

  Technology, Thinking, Humanity

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• A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Drama, Light

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

  Natalie

  Heart, Special, Tudors

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• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  Gabriel Macht

  Thinking, Nbc, Stories

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

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• Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

  Frank Darabont

  Wall, Drawing, Cavemen

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• Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

  David G. McAfee

  Christian, Convincing Evidence, Creative

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• I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

  Paul McGann

  Passion, Other Worlds, People

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

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• I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
  the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
  as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Shadow Riders”, p.66, Bantam

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• Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Writing, Appeals, Good Writing

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• The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

  Reynolds Price

  Sound, Stories, Our Lives

  Reynolds Price (2013). “Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Air, Two

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• I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

  Paul Zindel

  Self Esteem, Giving, Stories

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• I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  Damon Lindelof

  New York, Real, Thinking

  "'Prometheus' Writer Damon Lindelof on Why 'Vague' Is Good and the 'Sadistically Cool' Fallout From the 'Lost' Finale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

  Henry Jenkins

  Unique, Creating, Stories

  "Transmedia Storytelling 101" by Henry Jenkins, henryjenkins.org. March 21, 2007.

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• I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.

  Sarah Burton

  Eye, Love Is, Romance

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