Telling stories Quotes · Page 9

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a…

— Jay-Z

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

— Oprah Winfrey

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

— Anonymous

“When my children were little, always I had to explain things. Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?”

— Hannu Vilponen

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what…

— Aaron Sorkin

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of…

— Miguel Gomes

“How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to…

— Paulo Coelho

I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people…

— Morgan Spurlock

For me, 'Candyman' has always been about telling stories and how they are important to keep telling because they will hopefully stop…

— Nia DaCosta

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.…

— Wim Wenders

I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories…

— Natasha Rothwell

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that…

— Anonymous

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being…

— Helen Hunt

I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling…

— Mike Birbiglia

“I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.”

— Richard Dawkins

I've been a big fan of telling stories with young people that have a strong sense of reality.

— David Nutter

I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

— Chris Pratt

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of…

— John C. McGinley

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

— Roxane Gay

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling…

— Jaco Van Dormael

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

— Sophie Marceau

For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.

— Michael B. Jordan

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as…

— Sarah Zettel

When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best…

— Sally Fitzgibbons

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

— Lisa Stansfield

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

— Lauren Myracle

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with…

— Bill Frakes

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

— Greg Berlanti

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and…

— Ken Scott

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason…

— Stephen King

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

— Ray McKinnon

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as…

— Kate DiCamillo

I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna…

— Rotimi

Obviously I would love to see black filmmakers telling stories about black families, and I think that that's happening and will continue…

— Taylor Russell

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett