I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. — John Howe Copy Share Image
“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!” — Maggie Reese Copy Share Image
“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, and with the truth,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
“We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment… — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“This is a story that could only have taken place in the tropics, where the climate draws sea rovers, pirates, and desperadoes… — Margaret Cezair-Thompson Copy Share Image
All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
