Quotes About Storytelling

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

Fiction is empathy technology.

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he'd met on the internet.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel. Or maybe they just help me while away the hours as the rain pounds down on the porch roof, taking me away from the gloom and on to somewhere sunny, somewhere else.

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)