Storytelling Quotes - page 8

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion. (Jean-Marc Vallee)
I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs. View quote
Jill Sobule
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point. View quote
John Logan
When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre. View quote
Jackie Earle Haley
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much! View quote
Josh Young
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.' View quote
Julianna Baggott
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling. View quote
Justin Kirk
Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post. View quote
Kurt Sutter
I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began. View quote
Kurt Sutter
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling. (Karen Thompson Walker)
I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that. View quote
Charles Sturridge
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail. View quote
Charles Sturridge
You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.' View quote
Emily Meade
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling. View quote
George Murray
The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters. View quote
Jessie Mueller
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution. View quote
Josh Trank
The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration. View quote
Kim Young-ha
I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently. View quote
Kelly McCreary
I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up. View quote
Megan Boone
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired. (Melissa Rosenberg)
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile. View quote
Melissa Rosenberg
With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.' View quote
Melissa Rosenberg
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight', although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups. View quote
Melissa Rosenberg
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there. View quote
Michael Koryta