Quotes About Storytelling

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time" . . . they're lying

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.