Quotes About Storytelling

I do really long DJ sets - I play for five or six hours sometimes - but the live shows are a bit more compact. The arch of how to tell a story, where the energy is, where you have peaks and drops, where things go up and things come down, that's all being informed by DJ-ing.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

I would love to work with anybody who has a good story to tell - Patrick Graham, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson. I don't know why I was not considered for that Indian guy's part in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.'

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can I even remember one.

I'm just a story teller.

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I not only want to engage with my fans but want to truly show and express my experiences and potential as a narrator and a story teller.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

I see myself as a story teller.

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

Animation is just another way of telling a story.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

I really love the work that I do, and I feel like you have to go that extra mile to do it because it is a responsibility. Telling stories is a responsibility.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.