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• Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

  Robert Redford

  Important, Humans, Continuity

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• Stories are a different kind of true.

  Emma Donoghue

  Truth, Writing, Different

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

  Richard Denney

  Book, Writing, Choices

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• I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Inspirational, Directors, Stories

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• Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!

  Ben Mikaelsen

  Writing, Reality, Never Quit

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• If I look at the mass I will never act.

  Mother Teresa

  Apathy, Looks, Mass

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• Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

  Randall Wallace

  Identity, Culture, Activity

  "Comparing 'Heaven is for Real' with 'God’s Not Dead' + an interview with 'Heaven' writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

  Simon Sinek

  Stories, Belief, Share

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• Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

  Peter Guber

  Positivity, Sound, Easy

  FaceBook post by Peter Guber from Jun 12, 2011

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• Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Mean, Views

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

  Tahir Shah

  Father, Heritage, Stories

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.141, Random House

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• Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Healing, Heart, Community

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.122, John Wiley & Sons

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

  Lady Gaga

  Mom, Grandma, Inspiration

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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• Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.

  A. S. Byatt

  Taken, Thinking, Blood

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• I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Together, Collaboration, Stories

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Editing, Creative Collaboration, Design

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you -- they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.

  Josh Lanyon

  Character, Advice, Taste

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• I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

  Steven Spielberg

  Creating, Creative, Benefits

  "Oscars Q&A: Steven Spielberg On 'War Horse's Four-Legged Actors, 3D And Lessons Learned". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. February 01, 2012.

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• I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

  Salman Rushdie

  Air, Different, Down And

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• Casting is storytelling.

  Joss Whedon

  Casting

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