Storytelling Quotes - Page 5

• That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.

  Jenna Coleman

  Play, Joy, Scripts

  "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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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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• The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Crazy, Ocean, Struggle

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

  Vince Gilligan

  Opportunity, Thinking, Missing

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• I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

  Nina Arianda

  Song, Queens, Epic

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• Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fire, People, Different

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Evil, Wicked, Lines

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Dungeons, Role Playing

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

  Jade Hassoune

  People, Television, World

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

  Ridley Scott

  Battle, Film, Forget

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

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• A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Book, Melody, Behinds

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• I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

  Bryan Cranston

  Writing, Produce, Enjoy

  "OSCARS Q&A: Bryan Cranston". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

  Frank McCourt

  Teaching

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Brother, Taught, Mythology

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

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• I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

  John Ridley

  Writing, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

  James M. Kouzes

  Mean, Roots, Events

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• Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.

  Nick Morgan

  Mind, Events, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Honest

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

  Margot Asquith

  Stories, Announcements, Dangerous

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

  Christina Baldwin

  Thinking, Stories, Language

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

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• The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

  Agnes Repplier

  Voice, Infancy, Storyteller

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.

  Dan Ariely

  Believe, Reality, Light

  "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves". Book by Dan Ariely, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

  Steven Moffat

  People, Care, Awful

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• Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Nike, Games, Apples

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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