Storytelling Quotes - Page 5

I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.