Storytelling Quotes · Page 73

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

“We may be in the modern digital age, but when it comes to stories, we are still antediluvian.”

— Calvin Niles

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

— Anonymous

“it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.”

— Martha N. Beck

“Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.”

— Sol Luckman

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

— ASAP Rocky

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

— Marjane Satrapi

“...a true narrative like time and tide must run its course and would respect no man.”

— Thomas Hardy

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

We use music, cinematic storytelling and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as 'Samurai Jack' travels an exotic landscape. The…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't…

— Christopher Priest

We're constantly striving to bring something new and different to the table, either in the way that we're using the cameras, or…

— Joe Russo

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images…

— Marianna Mayer

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's…

— Richard Dormer

I loved adventure movies. I loved movies where people went on an adventure to an unknown land, an undiscovered country, or a…

— Tom Hiddleston

When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or…

— Brené Brown

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held…

— Ken Livingstone

It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant…

— Mary Zimmerman

John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see…

— Tatiana Maslany

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's…

— Jason Isbell

“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn't flow away and pour itself out, done and gone.…

— Laini Taylor

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it…

— Steven T. Seagle

“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest…

— Alain de Botton

Take chances when you're young so that you can tell stories when you're old.

— Mhaj Porras

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

— Nicola Sturgeon

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

— T. J. Stiles

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let…

— Charlotte Church

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

— Charlize Theron

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

— Anonymous

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

— Seth Numrich

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

— Ted Shackelford

“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well…

— Amanda Seyfried

“Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.”

— William Alexander

“Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

— Johnny Depp

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into…

— Peter Guber

I've created things that I thought were not possible. Believing in myself, reality wasn't a myth. The myth became reality.

— Jeremy Limn