I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“No wonder that the ghost and goblin stories had a new zest. No wonder that the blood of the more timid grew… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy tale, and fairy tales… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at… — Elvira Woodruff Copy Share Image
“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons… — Eric Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact,… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
“Everyone tells a story about who they are in their own head. That story defines you, dictating all your actions and all… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
“What we believe affects our choices, our actions, and subsequently, our lives. The Greeks believed in thier gods, and this belief affected… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories:… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
![“We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one…” quote by Robert Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/123/robert-rodriguez-8016_comic_we-rodriguez-and-frank-miller-wanted-to_184423.jpg)
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