Storytelling Quotes - Page 31

• I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

  Casey Kasem

  Distance, Reading, Dedication

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• The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

  Mike Figgis

  Cameras, Movement, Function

  Mike Figgis (2012). “Digital Film-Making”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

  Cheyenne McCray

  Beautiful, Sensual

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• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

  Andy Behrman

  Pain, Unique, Agony

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• Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Reality, Animal, Games

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• It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

  Alan Sepinwall

  Superhero, Tvs, Places You Go

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Essence, Purpose

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• You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

  Kiki Smith

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Fashion, Drama, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

  Will Smith

  Character, Way, Stories

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• It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Sound, Stories, Actors

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• I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Becoming, World

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• Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.

  Alicia Vikander

  Independent, Jewels, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Mean, Saving Private Ryan, Would Be

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

  Ian Mckellen

  Television, Form, Exaggerated

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.

  Alan Tudyk

  Actors, Fit, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

  Andy Serkis

  Games, People, Age

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

  Roxane Gay

  Men, Years, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

  Solange Knowles

  Albums, Tables, Lineage

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

  Clara Jeffery

  Narrative, Facts, Kind

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Religious, Practice, Hymns

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

  J. J. Abrams

  Leap Of Faith, Leap

  "JJ Abrams: 'I never got Star Trek'" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2009.

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• My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

  Lena Waithe

  Character, Interesting, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

  Pearl Bailey

  Music, Thank God, Tunes

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