Quotes About Storyteller

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

According to the storyteller, the wedding very nearly took place, but at the most important moment, a group of perjurers participating in the case suddenly went on strike, demanding a pay increase.

I am a face in a trance, evoking duende. My face imbues breath and stuns you with star-spirit. I am grove-face, story-teller face, and dawn-bringer face. A face as common as carrots and celery, called upon as a father to be cook, waiter, servant, and maid.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Modernity was defined by the attempt to live in a universal story without a universal storyteller. The experiment has failed.

I have a wonderful idea. Maybe when you become a Twelve, they'll give you the Assignment of Storyteller!

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

The Hindustani storyteller always knows when he loses his audience, he said. Because the audience simply gets up and leave, or else it throws vegetables, or, if the audience is the king, it occasionally throws the storyteller headfirst off the city ramparts. And in this case, my dear Mogor-Uncle, the audience is indeed the king.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

Vince Ditrich is a thunderous musician, and one heck of a storyteller. I'd recommend strapping in tight for this book... and you might want to wear a helmet too!" Ed Robertson – Barenaked Ladies

I close my eyes. I am the visionary, the one-eyed seer, the storyteller. I am Pen. I can fight with the power of images and words.

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement.

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.

Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.