Storytelling Quotes - page 12

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. (Doris Lessing)
The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound? View quote
Martin Scorsese
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. View quote
Martin Scorsese
Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. View quote
Nicolas Cage
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. View quote
Keanu Reeves
One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the phar. View quote
Keanu Reeves
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent. View quote
Greg Graffin
We are the storytelling animal. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it. View quote
Randa Abdel-Fattah
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. (Simon Schama)
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories. View quote
Ed Sheeran
I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Since human beings are storytelling beings, we are bound to rebel against the drift to storylessness. But there is no guarantee that the rebellions will take salutary form. Some, in their hunger for story, will be drawn to the vacant, vicarious fare of confessional talk shows, celebrity scandals, and sensational trials. Others will seek refuge in fundamentalism. The hope of our time rests instead with those who can summon the conviction and restraint to make sense of our condition and repair the civic life on which democracy depends. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends. View quote
Lynn Nottage
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids. View quote
Robert Redford
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. View quote
Sherman Alexie
No, teaching could be done as fast as a lightning bolt. He'd cut across the valleys of my deepest doubts, giving light to the darkest crevices of my beaten-down, inhibited mind, accessing a natural storytelling ability within me that was utterly profound! View quote
Victor Villaseñor
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. View quote
Plato
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. View quote
Steven Spielberg
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. (Steven Spielberg)
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. View quote
Steven Spielberg
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
I've always been a storyteller. Before I could write, I used to make up stories and tell them to my friends and family. They were always really dramatic, with ghosts and people falling into holes in the ground, and ships lost at stormy seas. Then, I started drawing comic strips and I would show them to my mom and narrate them. As soon as I learned the alphabet I started writing stories and poems. I wrote every day, usually in the afternoons, when my parents were napping. My sister (who is seven years older) and my father recognized my love of storytelling and writing early on, and they fostered and encouraged it... View quote
Ayelet Tsabari
I was lucky...because my grandparents, who lived with us, were illiterate but they were great storytellers, so I got a kind of storytelling bug from them. View quote
José Rivera (playwright)