Quotes About Narrative

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

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.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

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.

It took me some time to realize television, for someone like me, was the perfect medium. I like to produce, I like to be detail-orientated, I like to be in charge of a lot of things, and I like to be a storyteller. It's kind of the perfect gig for someone like me.

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.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

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'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

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

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.