Quotes About Storytelling

How long is the Tale? she had asked, and Mrs. Underhill had said: you and your children and your children's children will all be buried before that Tale's all told.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

My approach is so simple every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

I'm not a brain surgeon, I'm not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that's a pretty important task.

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.