Quotes About Perspective

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking, about being a storyteller, is being able to learn about other people, putting myself in somebody else's shoes, whether that be someone from the Dominican Republic or someone from Cuba or inner-city Brooklyn.

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Storytelling is the important thing.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.