Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people. — Alrick Brown Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun 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
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
“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
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
“...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
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
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