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Quotes About Storytelling

The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
~ Simon Toyne
From early on... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.
~ Benny Fine
To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
~ Peter Landesman
I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
~ Cullen Bunn
I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
~ Bonnie Hunt
My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.
~ Paul Greengrass
I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
~ Duncan Jones
A big part of directing animation is deciding what you really want to do and making sure it's about something. My favorite thing about animation is the storytelling. You can really dig into the story and spend time with the writers. The writers don't just write and leave.
~ Mike Mitchell
Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
~ Freddie Wong
In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.
~ Thomas Newman
I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.
~ Thomas Newman
I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!
~ Brianna Hildebrand
The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
~ Lee Unkrich
I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.
~ Morgan Saylor
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
~ Bob Iger
I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.
~ Travis Kalanick
I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
~ Nazanin Boniadi
Audiences still crave storytelling.
~ Kathleen Kennedy
I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.
~ Ne-Yo
I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
~ Tamzin Merchant
Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.
~ Claire Messud
When you care about something, that's when you want to save it. I want to bring that to storytelling - to make saving the world sexy.
~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
I really have thought about immersive storytelling my whole career, so when I first heard about VR, I was like, 'Oh, this sounds like it's for me.'
~ Doug Liman
A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at it and try to gather it.
~ Owen King