Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology…

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

— Andrea Riseborough

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith…

— Viggo Mortensen

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

— Christian Boltanski

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including…

— Ben Hecht

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how…

— Maeve Binchy

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

Listening to someone telling a story & thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie.

— Anonymous

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

— Keith Richards

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy…

— Paul Bettany

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

— Antonio Damasio

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright