Quotes About Storytelling

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.

Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

My act is based on my life.