I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally… — Roy Conli Copy Share Image
That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
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[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
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When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
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“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am between the Tories and the Lib Dems. I am fiscally conservative. I'm for strong foreign policy, but socially very liberal.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
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I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
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