Storytelling Quotes - Page 6

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

I love crosscut parallel storytelling, like we did in Blue Valentine. I love how Alejandro González Iñárritu has done it, and Quentin Tarantino, and Francis Ford Coppola, and all the way back to D.W. Griffith - this parallel editing is an effective way to tell stories. It's like juggling, like keeping a lot of balls in the air and seeing how they come down.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.