Storyteller Quotes · Page 8

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be…

— Kevin Spacey

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two…

— Brené Brown

“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the…

— Cecelia Ahern

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

— Steve Antin

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

— Daniel Alarcon

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

— Peter Greenaway

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't…

— Adam Rapp

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are…

— Noah Hawley

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling]…

— Orson Welles

I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along…

— Kurt Sutter

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and…

— Brené Brown

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep…

— Federico Fellini

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he…

— Patti Davis

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal…

— Mark Helprin

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to…

— Bill Harley

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point,…

— Fede Alvarez

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh,…

— Jackie Collins

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood…

— Olivia Wilde

Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century…

— Keith Donohue

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how…

— Debbie Macomber

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls…

— Flannery O'Connor

There are some actors that are great stars and storytellers, but not necessarily good actors. I'm talking about some - not all…

— Philip Ridley

One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface…

— Marina Warner

My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But…

— James Redford

“Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you”

— Michael Scott

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

— John Hawkes

“It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most…

— Anonymous

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

— Howard Hawks

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

— Brynn Cartelli

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

— Lionel Richie

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

— Tim Robbins

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

— Deborah Harkness

“A story never stands on its own, but exists in the context of the storyteller.”

— Joseph Fink

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

— Chris Ware

“It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”

— Orson Scott Card

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to…

— Amit Kalantri

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I’m a storyteller. Of all the things I’ve ever done, I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller.”

— Jim Korkis