Quotes About Storytelling

Fiction is empathy technology.

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. But you can't get everybody to interpret the result in the same Way. And that's thrilling to know – that everybody will see it differently.

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

Listen, then, for I am a soulscaper and have the gift of the story tongue.

Sometimes it felt as if he telling his own story, and he realized that mixed up with the tragedy of Khaster were images and feelings from when the Magravandians had sacked home. When he related Tayven's violation, he spoke in the first person. Yet it was so different.

Don't you know when a bard lies he commits murder? He murders truth, and from the lips of a king's bard, that kills part of the world.

Perhaps he had become mythical, and was therefore creating myths.

I love telling stories, so I was hopelessly seduced.

Listen, then, for I am a soulscapter and have the gift of the story tongue.

With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.

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They would sit and talk and tell us their hard luck story. Whether it was true or not, we never questioned it. It's very important you learn people as people are.

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.

I've been on soaps.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that while other kids cultivated hobbies like skateboarding or playing the piano, I sat at home scribbling in notebooks.

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.