To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Guys like Samoa Joe, no matter what it's been, what promotion, every time we are in the ring there is such an… — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;… — Edith Hamilton Mythology Copy Share Image
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it.… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of… — Midori Snyder Copy Share Image
I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The hero. The journey, The power of… — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good… — Goldust Copy Share Image
I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I’m in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
“In general, the best antagonists in fiction represent the protagonist’s Shadow. By confronting and ultimately defeating the antagonist, the hero reintegrates these… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have… — Tinker Hatfield Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We need storytelling from all angles. We need men, women, and trans people participating in all aspects of filmmaking; this is the… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“For the story that shapes a child’s universe also shapes the child—and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought that my career wasn't right for me, and I was caught up in a dilemma,… — Kim Bum Copy Share Image
“It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the… — Nancy Lam Copy Share Image
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
“Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
