Storytelling Quotes - page 9

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy. (Michael Schur)
I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects. View quote
Mordicai Gerstein
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. View quote
Nickolas Ashford
I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. View quote
Nina Arianda
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. View quote
Peter Guber
I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is. View quote
Paul McGann
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling. View quote
Robbie Robertson
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. View quote
Robert McAfee Brown
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die. View quote
Roberta Williams
I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling. View quote
Ruzwana Bashir
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling. (Ray LaMontagne)
All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good. View quote
Ray McKinnon
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. View quote
Rhys Ifans
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them. View quote
Serge Schmemann
I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children. View quote
Seth
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. View quote
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient. View quote
Shawn Hatosy
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance. View quote
Simon Callow
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred. (Simon Mainwaring)
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me. View quote
Steven Bochco
Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing. View quote
Sanaa Lathan
I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close. View quote
Scott Eastwood
I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer. View quote
Scott M. Gimple