Storyteller Quotes · Page 10

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

— Christine Vachon

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

— Louis L'Amour

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

— Jennifer Weiner

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

— James A. Michener

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

— Phil Keoghan

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a…

— Aaron Sorkin

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

— Wes Borland

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were…

— Karen Abbott

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and…

— Myles Kennedy

“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but…

— Amit Kalantri

“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by…

— Jim Henson Productions

“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I…

— Chris Cleave

I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and…

— Elizabeth Banks

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I build my stories character-first, and so whether it's a monster or a ghost or a serial killer, the fear of something…

— Bryan Bertino

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those…

— Patricia Briggs

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,…

— Ben Kingsley

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.…

— Rebecca Miller

“It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I…

— Eudora Welty

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

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a…

— Maeve Binchy

I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the…

— Joy Harjo

That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we…

— Kurupt

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

— Amy Pascal

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— Robert Littell

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin

I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social…

— Pamela Yates

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

— Kate Morton

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.”

— Minton Sparks

My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them…

— Sarah Millican

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing…

— Rachel Maddow

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were…

— Jens Lekman

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share…

— Sarah Kay

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it.…

— Richard Lewis