Quotes About Storytelling

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

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A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.