Quotes About Storytelling

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

Perhaps it takes a hybrid to help create a body of writing where once there was only oral tradition.

I regret now that I didn't listen to their stories more closely, for they were yarn spinners, too.

No mentiría; pero la mejor verdad está en lo que cuento...

What you call history is no more than the winning story, Vásquez. Someone made that story win, and not any of the others, and that's why we believe it today. Or rather: we believe it because it got written down, because it wasn't lost in the endless hole of words that only get said, or even worse, that aren't even spoken, but are only though. (p.450-451)

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend

Too often we fall into the trap of thinking that if we give employees the facts and explain why change needs to take place from an economic point of view, they'll buy into the change. We overestimate the power of logic and underestimate the power of storytelling, an appeal to belonging and the positive emotions of belonging.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

I love when the environmentalist David Orr says, "The planet does not need more 'successful people.' The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture defines it.

If you truly are a would be writer then there will be no need for you to search for ideas. Everything that happens to you, your family and friends can end up as a storyline. Whichever way you look at it love, envy, despair and so on have been happening since the dawn of time; all you have to do is get the setting and characters right.

I pull out my notebook from my bag and open it. I read through all the pages I've written. It makes me feel more substantial, somehow. I do exist. I am me. This is the story of my heart.

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

except that Sir Lionel tended to forget the middle bits of the stories, and his "mots" weren't terribly "bon.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

I hope many people can indulge themselves in the power of audio cinema.

Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.

I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'

'3' was initially not a feature film but a short movie.