I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.
Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
