Quotes About Storytelling

I really love to make movies.

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

people organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds.

You look at the world through a story. You can't help it.

Los seres humanos son curiosos sobre la estructura y la función de todo, y no iba a ser menos en el caso de ellos mismos; nuestra capacidad para contar historias refleja nuestra capacidad para describirnos a nosotros mismos.

Incompetent and corrupt intellectuals thrive on such activity, such games. The first players of a given game of this sort are generally the brightest of the participants. They weave a story around their causal principle of choice, demonstrating how that hypothetically primary motivational force profoundly contributed to any given domain of human activity.

As pessoas que acompanham uma história estão dispostas a suspender a descrença, desde que as limitações que tornam a história possível sejam coerentes e consistentes. Os escritores, por sua vez, concordam em obedecer às suas decisões finais. Quando os escritores enganam, os fãs ficam irritados. Querem atirar o livro para a lareira e atirar um tijolo à televisão.

Se trata de un hecho lo suficientemente importante como para repetirlo: la gente organiza su cabeza conversando. Y si no tienen a nadie para contarle su historia, pierden la cabeza. Son como personas que van acumulando objetos de forma compulsiva y no pueden deshacerse de nada ellas solas. Se requiere el aporte de la comunidad para mantener la integridad de la psique individual o, dicho de otra forma, es necesario todo un pueblo para organizar una sola cabeza.

One person begins by telling a story about some interesting occurrence, recent or past, that involved something good, bad or surprising enough to make the listening worthwhile. The other person, now concerned with his or her potentially substandard status as less-interesting individual, immediately thinks of something better, worse, or more surprising to relate.

Güzel Kavga S?rf kavga etmiÅŸ olmak için, birine sald?rman?n, yumruklaÅŸarak toz toprak içinde yuvarlanman?n fiziksel hazz?n? yaÅŸamak amac?yla sebepsizce dövüÅŸüyorlard?. (...) Kavga etmek t?pk? ÅŸark? söylemek gibi, hikaye dinlemek, yalan söylemek, gece r?ht?mda oturup denizi düÅŸünmek gibi iyi geliyordu insana.

Masallar çocuklara uyumalar?, yetiÅŸkinlere de uyanmalar? için anlat?l?r.

De hát én írom ezt a történetet, s úgy írom, ahogy kedvem tartja.

escribo porque me gusta vivir las vidas vicarias que se multiplican en mis tramas y porque, aun reconociendo la vacuidad de la empresa, finjo así que el mundo importa

Ä°nsanlar olmayacak masallar anlat?p çocuklar?n her ÅŸeye inanaca??n? zannediyorlar.

Büyükler birtak?m masallar anlat?yorlar ve çocuklar?n her anlatt?klar?na inand?klar?n? düÅŸünüyorlar.

LISTEN SOCRATES, TO THE STORY; AS EXTRAORDINARY AS IT IS, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE." Plato Timaeus 355 BC

contó cuál era la fórmula de su oratoria: «Generalmente comienzo con un chiste o con una historia para captar la atención de la gente: luego les cuento lo que voy a decirles, se lo digo, y después les digo lo que acabo de decirles».