Quotes About Communication

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

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

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it in relationship to yourself, and say, 'I think this is a pattern,' or 'I think this is the way fatherhood works,' or 'I think this is the way first love feels.' The danger in that is, that's when you open yourself up to real critique.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

I am a storyteller by trade.

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

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.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.