Storytelling Quotes - Page 8

• Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy Kelley, who has been my writing partner on my novels, she works more on the prose side and the description side of the storytelling because, obviously, there's a lot more of that in a novel than in a screenplay. You only have up to 120 pages in a screenplay.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Writing, Pages, Firsts

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

  John Carpenter

  Equipment

  Source: collider.com

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.

  Tye Sheridan

  Knowing, Ends, Hardest

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

  Susanne Wuest

  Austria, Genre

  Source: www.empireonline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

  Steven Bochco

  Dog, Divorce, Emotional

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Massage, Paint, Can Do

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

  Damon Lindelof

  Writing, Stories, Distinction

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

  Juliette Lewis

  Different, Pieces, Tvs

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

  Joss Whedon

  Wish, Television, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.

  Susan Sarandon

  Character, Anxiety, Important

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

  Peter Travers

  Magic, Vivid, Pixar

  4 Copy quote

• And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance with it all. Where are the shows that allow the entire family to sit down and enjoy something together?

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Mean, Together, Down And

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

  David Crabb

  Character, Years, Acting

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Adam Savage

  Forever, Stories, Done

  "The Truth About MythBusters". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. May 15, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

  Pamela Yates

  Rights, Law, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Feelings, Culture, Authority

  4 Copy quote

• I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the
  trajectory of the story.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Mean, Twists

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.

  Vince Gilligan

  Hard Work, Thinking, Giants

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

  David Mamet

  Sex

  David Mamet (2008). “Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business”, p.88, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

  4 Copy quote

• There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Men, Dust

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  David Chase

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, San Francisco

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

  Dori Berinstein

  Drama, Passion, Perfect

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source