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Quotes About Storytelling

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.
~ Michael Shannon
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.
~ Casey Kasem
I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.
~ Winston Duke
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
~ Charles Stross
I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.
~ Channing Dungey
I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.
~ Channing Dungey
I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.
~ Cole Sprouse
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
~ Walter Kirn
Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
~ Aml Ameen
Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.
~ Stephen Hopkins
Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.
~ Aerin Lauder
Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
~ R. J. Cutler
I feel like I get drawn to - and I know it sounds cheesy but - I love storytelling.
~ Andre Royo
VR should offer an experience that's more exciting than watching in 2D, and we're pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar's already pretty high.
~ Doug Liman
I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
~ Walton Goggins
In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.
~ Lenny Henry
I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.
~ Derek Cianfrance
My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives.
~ Elaine Welteroth
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.
~ Raftaar
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.
~ James Gray
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.
~ Skylar Grey
Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
~ Robert Redford
Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.
~ Tom Verica