“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures,… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
“It was what the gleeman had called Plain Chant, those nights beside the fire on the ride north. Stories, he said, were… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
If there are people who don't have access to creating their own TV shows or telling the stories they want to tell,… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“It’s not just about entertainment. It’s about telling stories that audiences connect with emotionally. The way to do this is to make… — Lawrence Levy Copy Share Image
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
If ever I think I've got something so important to say or share with the world that everyone else should sit up… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
That film, I mean "The shining" got me thinking about the way of telling stories and how effective it can be and… — Freya Mavor Copy Share Image
I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So,… — Dulquer Salmaan Copy Share Image
I was always writing and telling stories as a kid. Initially, I was like, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' Then… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma -… — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally… — Chris Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
I decided to go to the cinema school because I thought it was a new sort of media. Nowadays, it's not anymore,… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image