Quotes About Narrative

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories.

I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I don't think of myself as anything more than a person who sits in the living room with you telling you a story. I just happen to be in 16 million living rooms.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.