Quotes About Passion

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I didn't know anybody who was a filmmaker - there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller.

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more like Pacino or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep or De Niro - you know, a chameleon as a storyteller - because I love all kinds of movies.

Don't do another show just because someone thinks that there's a dollar to be earned there. Do it because you love the characters, and you love the world, and you really, truly feel both the fans and you as a storyteller can benefit from having the second show.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

I'm interested in the film world; I love being a storyteller.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

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.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

I feel like I get drawn to - and I know it sounds cheesy but - I love storytelling.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.

I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

When you care about something, that's when you want to save it. I want to bring that to storytelling - to make saving the world sexy.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

I really love storytelling.