Quotes About Storytelling

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I would love to produce a film.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

I love all history because it's storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

My tale starts and ends with Hekla, and I will tell it as it happens, in the manner of the bards.

So here I am, she said dryly, scaring my two nieces to death with all the gruesome details I wanted to forget--and with a haunted dollhouse, so you tell me, up in the attic.

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