Telling Stories Quotes - Page 4

• There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

  Jaco Van Dormael

  Two, Differences, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

  Seth Gabel

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The Marvel cinematic universe and the Marvel animation universe are things that are very true, in terms of the DNA of what it is. But if, at the end of the day, all we're doing is telling stories that have appeared in the comic books already, then we're not really challenging anybody.

  Jeph Loeb

  Book, Dna, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Always Trying, Different, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

  Miguel Gomes

  Country, Different, Cinema

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Life, Women, Together

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Stories, Wanted, Playwright

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.

  Georgie Henley

  Children, Book, Writing

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• When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

  Dave Grohl

  Focus, Stories, Done

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• I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, Absence, Enjoy

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Kitchen

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• I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Differences, Making A Difference

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• It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!

  Timothy Dalton

  Fun, Acting, Fiction

  "Timothy Dalton talks 'Chuck,' 'The Tourist,' and, of course, Bond". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.ew.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Would Be, Stories, Misery

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2010.

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• I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Eye, Cities, Shopping

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

  Naomie Harris

  Powerful, Believe, Stories

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

  Jim Carrey

  Play, Acting, Stories

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

  John Carpenter

  Passion, Fans, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

  John Lasseter

  Artist, Stories, Individual

  "Cars 2 - John Lasseter interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Brother, Children, Years

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2009.

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• If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Successful, Directors, Different

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

  Pamela Love

  School, Creating, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.

  Britney Spears

  Fun, Games, People

  "Britney: I'm Single". Press conference, www.imdb.com. March 26, 2002.

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• And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

  Mary Oliver

  Real, Stories, Coming Back

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.21, Penguin

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