The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.
I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.
Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines....
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or sh...
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
