Quotes About Storytelling

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.

I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed. I'm a storyteller so I act out a lot of characters and I act out a lot of situations and I'm distorting my voice and imitating characters I run into. I'm actually more exhausted doing that than I am with the rock shows, believe it or not.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I'm a good storyteller.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.