Storytelling Quotes - Page 24

• I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

  Terry Kinney

  Thinking, Film, Shots

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like the big twist shows are now off the table. I think Westworld was probably the last one to Trojan horse this idea of the young man in black. They were doing non-linear storytelling, but disguising it. Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy have spoken openly about how they just didn't think people were going to figure it out that fast.

  Damon Lindelof

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  "‘The Leftovers’ Season 3: Damon Lindelof & Tom Perrotta on the Final Episodes, Reddit’s Influence on Storytelling". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2017.

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• The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're like a walled garden, where you know what you're going to see and you expect it. But in the world of TV, because it's episodic, you can explore any area because you have time to do that. You can take risks on the kinds of storytelling that you're doing.

  Seth Gabel

  Garden, People, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.

  Jeph Loeb

  Children, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me. It's ruined me because nobody cares about these issues, and then it's the source of most of my storytelling now, because I am so preoccupied with it. It fuels me, because this is my outrage. I do believe in that great tradition of literature and storytelling. You know, the downfall and the folly of it all.

  Larry Fessenden

  Believe, People, Arrogance

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.

  Erica Brown

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

  Kevin Costner

  Western, Depends, Preserves

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• I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

  Hannah Hart

  Media, Careers, Lgbt

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Play, Ideas, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Fun, People, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.

  Eric Kripke

  Sexy, Fun, Heart

  "‘Timeless’ Showrunner Eric Kripke & Shawn Ryan on Building a Better Villain and Exploring Different Eras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

  Alexandra Byrne

  Thinking, Color, Costumes

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can find a way to build those into the story, then the story becomes a process of deconstructing and heightening and sometimes changing those notions and that makes dramatic tension. The initial statement of your position, and then letting reality act on you to change it, is pretty good storytelling.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Reality, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

  Nicole Kidman

  Stories, Way, Love Story

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Quality, Acting, Emotion

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• Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration.

  Sam Lake

  Book, Inspiration, Games

  "Remedy's Sam Lake". Interview with Nick Cowen, www.eurogamer.net. February 18, 2010.

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• The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.

  Sam Lake

  Writing, Games, Example

  "Alan Wake writer Sam Lake on the creative process. Part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.

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• In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Art, Communication, Kentucky

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

  Natalie Kusz

  Family, Parent, Soul

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• Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

  Harry Lloyd

  Feet, Brilliant, Carpet

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• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mistake, Book, Creativity

  "How to Win the 2012 Fiction Contest!" by Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 1, 2011.

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• History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

  Jill Lepore

  Long, Interesting, Argument

  "Just the Facts, Ma'am" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.

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• The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Adventure, Night

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• From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

  Athol Fugard

  Father, Avid, Two

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