Quotes About Storytelling

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

The cubs looked into Mama's eyes, then at each other, and then they began to tell one of the biggest whoppers that has ever been told in Bear Country.  

Invento i libri e racconto di averli letti. Fingo così bene e li rigiro nel cervello così a lungo che forse a quel punto potrei anche scriverli. Ma fantasticare è piacevole, scrivere è faticoso.

fundamental difference in approach can make the short stories of Stella Gibbons seem somewhat obvious in their tone. And yet this is misleading: these stories are not obvious at all; they simply adhere to a storytelling convention that has been lost sight of in our quest for greater depth of characterization and psychological insight.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.