Quotes About Understanding

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Now you know the rest of the story.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

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.

Interestingly enough, the storyboard... that I did for 'Psycho' went precisely as I laid it up, and there was no change on that. And frankly, I myself at that point didn't even really understand the impact that some of these things would have.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking, about being a storyteller, is being able to learn about other people, putting myself in somebody else's shoes, whether that be someone from the Dominican Republic or someone from Cuba or inner-city Brooklyn.

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything but can draw it better and more dynamically than you'd ever envisioned.

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.