Best Storyteller Thoughts
279 Storyteller quotes by 238 unique authors
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Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections,…
— Danny Huston
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional…
— PJ Harvey
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I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
— Michael Ironside
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Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
— Norman Jewison
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I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will…
— Etgar Keret
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Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way,…
— Daniel Dae Kim
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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
— Marian Keyes
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Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.
— Patricia Stephens Due
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
— N. Scott Momaday
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Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with…
— John Burnham Schwartz
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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
— Curtis W. Fentress
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I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers…
— David Plotz
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All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
— Michael Kimmelman
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Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
— Ruth Park
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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
— Walt Disney
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I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single…
— Nicolas Roeg
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I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
— Christine Vachon
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It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working…
— Brian Greene
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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
— Jane Fonda
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
— John Hawkes
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story…
— Hugh Jackman
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All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
— Spike Lee
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