Quotes About Storytelling

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings- all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. Here, we attempt to bridge the contradictions in our experience: We are the colored in a white feminist movement. We are the feminists among the people of our culture. We are often the lesbians among the straight. We do this bridging by naming our selves and by telling our stories in our own words.

We believe the explanation we hear last. It's one of the ways in which narrative influences our perception of truth. We crave finality, and end to interpretation, not seeing that this too, the tying up of all loose ends in the last chapter, is only a storytelling ruse. The device runs contrary to experience, wouldn't you say? Time never simplifies - it unravels and complicates. Guilty parties show up everywhere. The plot does nothing but thicken.

No fim, tu morres. No fim do livro, tu morres. Assim mesmo, como se morre nos romances: sem aviso, sem razão, a benefício apenas da história que se quis contar. Assim, tu morres e eu conto. E ficamos de contas saldadas.

Each biblical parable, for instance, tries to encode the hard-won experience of many individuals over unknown eons of time.

Suuri kirjailija on ennen kaikkea kertoja ja kuvaaja. Muista nämä. Suuri kirjailija ei ole koskaan saarnaaja, hosuja tai maailmanparantaja.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Mas as palavras parecem esperar a morte e o esquecimento; permanecem soterradas, petrificadas, em estado latente, para depois, em lenta combustão, acenderam em nós o desejo de contar passagens que o tempo dissipou. E o tempo, que nos faz esquecer, também é cúmplice delas. Só o tempo transforma nossos sentimentos em palavras mais verdadeiras (...)".

Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves?

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story. I

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story.

She withdrew into herself, First writing just for one, Then touching thousands. She incarnated ghosts, hurt, and joy Into paper-and-ink stories of wonder

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

That often happens when you plan a story to tell someone, because while you are planning it you write all the dialogue yourself – theirs as well as yours – and then, of course, they don't know their part.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.