Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.
My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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.'
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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.
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
Human beings cannot live without stories.
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.
Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.
Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Storytelling is about listening in any media.
I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.
Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
Storytelling is what lights my fire.
Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.
The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.
I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
I'm a fan of great storytelling.
We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.
There is no greater power on this earth than story.
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.
We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.
Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.
It's my passion, that's what I wanna do, it's the end goal, that's what I crave every second of the day is to be working on a production but also to be the person leading the production and guiding the pacing of the storytelling.
The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
Casting is storytelling.
Storytelling is the oldest form of education.
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.
It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.