Quotes About Storytelling

Sometimes, when I watch a movie where teenagers are played by actors that are 26 years old and look perfect, it makes you wonder what story is actually being told.

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.

'Louie' is a beautiful show. I think it's art on television.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

Whether it's a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.