Quotes About Storytelling

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

Everyone talks about the gags, but the most difficult thing is coming up with the stories. You have to learn to do that for sitcoms.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

I make dramedies, but 'Tangerine' really has a lot of comedy, and I saw that it had a great effect - it reached a larger audience.

I've always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but 'Nimona' felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, 'OK, I'm really gonna do this.'

Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I come from a long line of tall-tale talkers. Our family crest is bullets over crossed fingers and underneath it says, 'Bullshit Über Alles.

I was telling him about those fake cop pendejos from the other night." Kasabian does a theatrical shudder. "I had to make him stop. The whole cutting-off-heads thing. It's triggering for me, you know?

At least your absence wasn't eleven years like your last trip. How was your time in Le Merdier?" "Dusty. There was a judge down there. He spoke more languages and was crazier than you. If I live, I'll tell you all about it.

Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators and readers as well. It shows us that the untold life is not worth living. There will always be someone there to say, 'tell me a story', and someone there to respond. Were this not so, we would no longer be fully human.

The storied self knows that self is not enough.

All the time we tell ourselves stories about ourselves. We have to: there is no objective truth. You might as well choose positive rather than negative stories. By doing so you will increase the sum of human happiness, starting with yourself and radiating out to others.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.