“Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.” PeopleHelpingFilmYoungPowerfulIssuesCommunicationSkillsToolsTheaterStorytellingOur TimeCollaborationTranslateImproving Author:Kevin Spacey
“Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.” LittlesStoriesPleasureBrainMysterySadnessReaderSkillsLongingSticksCornersStorytellingHauntingEvokeMoron Author:Aimee Bender
“Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.” PeopleIfsGivingHumansYoungSongSkillsAdvantageErrorsTrialsStorytellingSwimUnclesTrial And ErrorCrocs Author:Margaret Atwood
“Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.” IfsWayShouldTryingFirstsKindUseFilmKnowingSkillsTechniqueStorytellingTemptationGet BackNot KnowingBest FilmTechnical SkillsGood Storytelling Author:Danny Boyle