Quotes About Storytelling

What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?

So she talked, and Noah, to his credit, did not quibble. He interrupted once or twice, but only for the sake of amplification or clarification, never because he doubted the essential veracity of her story. She told him all of it, from the pod, to the aircraft, to Eunice and the Tantors. She told him what she had learned of Eunice's nature, and why she had no reason to doubt that she had been talking to a machine. She told him of Eunice's amnesia, and the thing called Arachne.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.

I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

I wish the 'Dark Phoenix' saga had been done more effectively than it was, but that was out of my hands.

I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.