Quotes of: Storytelling Keyword

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

John Hawkes

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Chip Esten

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

Ira Glass

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Ajay Naidu

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

Brian De Palma

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Joyce Maynard

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Walter Benjamin

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

Tunde Adebimpe

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

Patrick Rothfuss

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

Shawn Hatosy

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

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

Steven Spielberg

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

Tim O'Brien

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

Tim Robbins

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Kelly Jones

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Louis L'Amour

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

Ruth Park

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

Stephen Cole

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Michael Schur

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