Quotes About Storytelling

Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way.

Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

I'm one of the greatest storytellers ever.

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

We are the storytelling animal.

Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn't know what it was and didn't understand it.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.