“I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that's just fascinating.” WorldWayEnoughPlayAbleGamesLostEnjoyHoursLove IsEmotionalAdventureGoes OnStorytellingVisualsFascinatingSophisticatedGamerVisceral Author:Bill Watterson
“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.” PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesIndividualPowerfulBrainEmotionalArgumentConnectionsScientistRationalStorytellingJournalistDiscoveringPortal Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.” PeopleWantTwoIdeasCharacterGovernmentActionCertainEnjoyHoursAudienceEmotionalJudgmentAspectFingersStorytellingHopefullyLayersInvasionDilemmaPretenseSubversion Author:Colin Farrell
“I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.” NeedsFilmLiteratureLeftSidesBrainToo MuchEmotionalExerciseResponseStorytellingThings I LoveEmotional ResponseLove LiteratureLeft Brain Author:Felicity Jones
“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.” PeopleWayLongMomentsDiesStuffTermInterestViewsDogEmotionalLong TimeConsequenceDivorceTraumaPoint Of ViewStorytellingThat MomentEmotional Life Author:Steven Bochco
“There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood."” LooksReasonEmotionalIntellectualHollywoodStorytellingBaggage Author:Ciaran Hinds
“I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.” ThinkingKnowsHumansKindRealWholeCharacterActingRolesConditionsEmotionalHugeFindingsTransformationNotionStorytellingArtisticHuman ConditionLarger Than LifeMagnifyingHuman PsycheAmplification Author:Andy Serkis
“To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.” EnoughAudienceAchieveEmotionalStorytellingIntimacyLook At Me Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“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.” WayTwoSocialMediaEmotionalTreatsSocial MediaDialogueStorytellingBrandsOne WayTwo Ways Author:Simon Mainwaring
“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.” MindHas BeensEndsMomentsFactsPastFormLyingInterestMemoriesTalkingCasesEmotionalGoes OnInvolvedSceneDrawsBreathsRateStorytellingAcceptableConformStorytellerOblivion Book:So Long, See You Tomorrow Source: So Long, See You Tomorrow