Quotes About Storytelling

I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Cuál es la diferencia entre un guion y una novela? La una es un relato cuya principal herramienta es la palabra, y el otro basa su impacto en las imágenes sin prescindir de la palabra, por eso hay guiones a los que se les califica de muy literarios, porque los personajes hablan mucho.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

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The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The

In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water, dead children who spoke in bones. A man who loved bottles.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

It's possibly, in the manner of Facino Cane, one more allegory of the novelist: the abuse of the power to enter others' lives, to animate them and tell their stories, leads to disaster. Humans have to be accorded a greater freedom, perhaps, even when that freedom means nonconformity to human definitions of reason and relationship.

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.

We gravitate to the narratives that best explain our emotions. In this way, narrative and memory become one.

The Bible—from back to front—is the story of God told from the limited point of view of real people living at a certain place and time.

A story like the exodus story is what happens when, as I said previously, God lets his children tell the story—in ways they understand and that is packed with meaning for them.

The Bible looks the way it does because "God lets his children tell the story," so to speak.

Over the years I've grown more and more convinced that "storytelling" is a better way of understanding what the Bible is doing with the past than "history writing.

Wherever biblical writers talk about the past, we should expect them to be shaping the past as well.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

AL MIRAR ATRÁS me di cuenta de que mi experiencia en Sony demostraba que contar cara a cara la historia adecuada, en el entorno preciso, en el momento idóneo y de la manera más pertinente, puede inducir a los oyentes a actuar, y también puede modificar la trayectoria de éxitos del narrador.

Y los elementos que construyen todas las historias atractivas, ya sea que se cuenten oralmente o a través de las páginas de un libro, por medio de actores en una pantalla o en un monitor, son el reto, la lucha y la resolución.

Por lo tanto, así es como se construye una historia: • Primero... capte la atención de sus oyentes con un reto o una pregunta inesperados. • Luego... ofrezca a sus oyentes una experiencia emocional al narrar la lucha para superar aquel desafío, o para encontrar la respuesta a la pregunta introductoria. • Por último... dispare la respuesta de sus oyentes con una resolución reveladora, que los llame a actuar.

Los oyentes raras veces se enganchan a un relato si no detectan al principio un cierto reto atractivo.

leyenda de Sobek demostró que las historias no tienen por qué ser largas ni tortuosas. Lo que sí tienen que hacer es sorprendernos.