Storytelling Quotes · Page 70

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

— John Carpenter

“Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.”

— Ann Handley MarketingProfs

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

— Henry Miller

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

— Lesley Sharp

“Storytelling is a gift from God ... with some assembly required.”

— Ane Mulligan

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

— Erich Fromm

I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.

— Joe Russo

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

— Neil Gaiman

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is…

— Eric Sloane

We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge.

— Ed Davey

We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of…

— Joe Russo

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing…

— David Duchovny

The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If…

— Owen Jones

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.…

— Alan Garner

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what…

— Kurt Sutter

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought,…

— Larry Bird

Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely…

— Alafair Burke

I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally…

— Roy Conli

“The most enduring and galvanizing ideas and values of our civilization are embedded in our stories, from those of Homer, […] and…

— Blake Mycoskie

“Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years. I’d been shut up in my hotel for more than…

— Donna Tartt

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales.…

— Denis O'Hare

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a…

— Anonymous

No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in…

— Haruki Murakami

“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.

— Francis X Clines

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

— William Shenstone

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

— Mark Getty

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

— Charles Bukowski

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

— Casey Kasem

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy.

— Camille Perri

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up…

— Erin Morgenstern

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

— Liz Murray

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

— Cher Lloyd

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

— Michael Shermer

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.

— Eric Close

“The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.”

— Toba Beta

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

— Peter Travers