Quotes About Storytelling

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

From that experience, I learned that Roddenberry's "box" forced us to be more creative and to tell stories in more interesting and different ways than we would have in any other typical universe, so I loved that box.

Did Revere make history or did Longfellow?

At that moment Jack reached an insight, one he never forgot: a bee in a story could tickle worse than a real bee. He realized, too, that a story peach could be sweeter than a real peach, a story flower more fragrant than a real flower, a story song more melodious than a real song. What existed in a story could be more real than what existed in the world. And by reaching this insight, Jack understood the true power of his art.

What matters the most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well. Be off now. The world awaits you

I just love movies.

And you'll like him, the cobbler, you'll all like him. He has amusing stories to tell and he's much better on dates than I am, and also he goes back much further, having already been a man when I was still a boy. I know we will. Certainly we will. Haj Harun smiled distantly. Well I think I'll come down now. I think it's time we began our rounds. Truly, yes do that. According to the once portable sundial in the front room, it's almost o'clock.

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

Who was I to judge the heart which broke into that moment, spilling kindness and longing? Who was I to dismiss her story because I did not know it?