Storyteller Quotes - Page 9

• Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Matter, Excellent, Mediums

  4 Copy quote

• I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

  Oliver Stone

  Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We see ourselves as filmmakers and as storytellers. We want to make films that move people emotionally. The most effective thing that cinema can do is get into people's hearts and have them see a new perspective on life - step inside someone else's shoes and mind for 90 minutes and experience the world in that way.

  Jon Shenk

  Moving, Heart, People

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

  Shauna Niequist

  Spiritual, Stories, Literature

  4 Copy quote

• This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

  Christina Baldwin

  Narrative, Storytelling, Attributes

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.11, New World Library

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.

  Debbie Macomber

  Mean, Careers, People

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes not honoring your character makes for really good television, but that also can really upset fans. You have to turn things upside sometimes. As a storyteller, you have to know that sometimes you're going to let your fans and the audience down because you have to do your part in servicing the story.

  Azita Ghanizada

  Character, Upset, Fans

  Source: collider.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

  James McBride

  Lying, White, Black

  "Spike Lee’s Co-Writer Pens an Open Letter: “Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens.”". www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Discipline, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  N. Scott Momaday

  Stronger, Oral Tradition, Way

  24 Copy quote

• Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Reading, Character, Memorable

  4 Copy quote

• I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.

  David Plotz

  Space, People, Want

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Narrative, Imposing

  "My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for.

  Samanta Schweblin

  Attention, Argument, Introspective

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For some people, I got away with something. And you know what? That's a fair thing to say, for them. I'm not saying I agree with that, but I can see how they can say that. But it's a matter of just like...you know, I'm really fortunate. As a journalist, I don't have to agree with you to talk to you. My job is to figure out why you think the way you think. I want to get to the root of why you think the way you think. That's what I find most fascinating as a storyteller.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Thinking, People, Like You

  4 Copy quote

• I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

  Matt Reeves

  Fun, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Character, Should Have, Stories

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks Deadfall, Sons of Anarchy Season 5, Pacific Rim, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for Wb and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.

  Jon Spaihts

  Writing, Math, College

  Source: www.mtv.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

  J. J. Abrams

  Grateful, Kids, Home

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Thinking, Careers, Television

  Source: collider.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

  Greg Berlanti

  Choices, Fans, Letters

  Source: variety.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I build my stories character-first, and so whether it's a monster or a ghost or a serial killer, the fear of something dark interrupting life has just always been something that matters to me as a storyteller, or what I keep finding myself drawn back to.

  Bryan Bertino

  Dark, Serial Killer, Ghost

  Source: dailydead.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

  Jane McGonigal

  Country, Brother, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Dream, Memories, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Real, Tough Times, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source