Quotes About Communication

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

I'm not at my house storyboarding, and telling them they need to move from A to B, 'Move here and then there.' Never, ever! I used to storyboard when I was much less experienced.

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.

It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I'm a good storyteller.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.