Storytelling Quotes - Page 19

• Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.

  Greg Graffin

  School, Dry, Taught

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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Communication, Skills, People

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• I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Thinking, Knowing

  "John C. Reilly Talks WRECK-IT RALPH, How He Got Involved, Rooting for the Underdog, His Reaction to Seeing the Finished Film and Doing More Voice-Overs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Sound, Different

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• But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Ghost Stories, Devil

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• I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Writing, Needs, Tvs

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...Well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Unique, Laughing, Manipulation

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• I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Technique, Depth

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 06, 2013

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• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Important, Sound

  "What Inspires Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  Ed Sheeran

  Wicked, Fans, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, Universal, Doctor Who

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Stories, Unconventional, Linear

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• Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.

  Marion Woodman

  Writing, Heart, Soul

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• It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

  Kevin Spacey

  Athlete, Character, Night

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• While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Thinking, Way

  "'The Wire' writer David Simon among MacArthur genius grant winners" by Dan Zak, www.washingtonpost.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Long Ago, Stories, Changed

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• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  Brad Pitt

  Summer, Night, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Rope

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• Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Stories, Matter, True Story

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

  Demi Lovato

  Responsibility, Speaks Out, People

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• Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

  Marion Woodman

  Children, Heart, Bored

  Marion Woodman (1992). “Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity”, Shambhala Publications

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• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  David Gemmell

  Children, Writing, Garden

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• Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Intelligent, Needs, Next

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• I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

  Susan Orlean

  Games, Trying, Littles

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Talking, Watches

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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