Quotes About Storytelling

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy.

People think that cartoons are meant to be watched on television and not in cinemas. To get people into cinemas to see animation really boils down to storytelling for the family.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives us this bigger canvas to paint on. It opens up all sorts of new storytelling possibilities.

One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling.

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.

I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

When I think about the shows that we have on our air, we've been known for a long time for shows that feature strong, dynamic, powerful women at their forefront. And we're going to continue with that kind of storytelling.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.