Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If you go back to early folk, it's all storytelling; that's exactly what it is: some guy telling a story in a… — Passenger Copy Share Image
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think everybody is allowed, especially when they're telling a story, as long as it's not based on somebody's real life, you're… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage… — Chris D'Elia Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life,… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else. — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.” — Kai Strand Copy Share Image
The old West Coast rappers are the way I rap; they weren't always on beat but it was about telling a story.… — Blueface Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
“So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.” — Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind Copy Share Image
Listening to someone telling a story and thinking to yourself, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you… — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way,… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have… — Charlie McDowell Copy Share Image
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