Quotes About Narrative

Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

I feel like I get drawn to - and I know it sounds cheesy but - I love storytelling.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

If we can find our storytelling in more complimentary ways with the technology, I think it's just going to get better and better.

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Storytelling is the important thing.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.