Quotes About Storytelling

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

I always like to tell a story.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.