Quotes About Storytelling

For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

I love stories about women.

Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it!

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to prevent us from continuing to grapple with the story at hand. It ideally should demand that we remain engaged with the story.

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

We Filipinos bond over food, music, dance, and shares stories. And to Filipinos, no matter who you are and where you come from, you always have an invitation to celebration.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

Digital is a fantastic platform to tell your stories.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.