Quotes About Storytelling

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

When you are doing a real life story, it requires a lot of sensitivity, a lot of responsibility.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump of footage, and you have to shape it and make it into a story - which I love doing.

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.

I would love to do a love story or a socially relevant drama. Something on the lines of Netflix originals. I would love to explore the big screen, too.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

If I can be dead honest with you, when I first see the script for a new episode of 'Endeavour,' if anything jars, I say, 'What's this? Has it got a place in our story?' And if it hasn't, it has to go.

2Pac made me want to rap, he made me want to speak my ghetto story and not be ashamed of it.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.