Storytelling Quotes - Page 25

• It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Thinking, Different

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• The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

  Amos Oz

  Documentation, Fairytale, Old Testament

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

  Amy Hill

  Opportunity, Differences, Television

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• I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Character, Artist, Thinking

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• In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

  James Redford

  Art, Important, Trying

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• I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

  John Musker

  Fans, Bigs, Term

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• In my work, there is a lot of storytelling. The storytelling is not a new thing. Back in the [Howard] Thurston days, the [Harry] Houdini days, the [Harry] Blackstone days, it was stories, but the stories were, "We're going to the Egyptian temples, and we're going to vanish the Prince of Thebes," and, "On my last trip to the Orient ..."

  Judd Apatow

  One Day, Stories, Lasts

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• I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

  Scott Derrickson

  Book, Thinking, Way

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• I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Development, Narrative

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• We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

  Michael Lewis

  Hands, Stories, Facts

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• The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

  Simon Kinberg

  Character, Track, Challenges

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• If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

  Ben Wheatley

  Art, Real, Communication

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• Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sweet, Thinking, Two

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Gossip, History

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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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