“Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative, it's my kind of storytelling. It's not style; it's just there.” IfsKindMadeShowsStyleTraumaStorytellingNarrativePornography Author:Lav Diaz
“The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.” MayRealSelfStoriesPurposeObjectivesStorytellingPersonaFactualReal SelfReplicate Author:Norman Lock
“I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.” ShouldWritingNaturalPleasureFictionWorryStorytellingSurprisingStorytellerMechanicWriting Fiction Author:Norman Lock
“I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.” IfsWantShouldWritingSometimesIssuesDisappointmentBe GoodWoundsStorytellingTherapyBreakupJournalGood WritingFamily Issues Author:Mandy Stadtmiller
“We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.” CultureMiddleTvsLuckyStorytellingMediumsRenaissance Author:Nick Antosca
“I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesLongBookDifferentStoriesTogetherFormThreeTermPerfectPiecesElementsDecidedComplexesStorytellingGenreLong TermShort StoryLong Term Relationship Author:Lucy Corin
“Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.” LooksKindCharacterStoriesHappensSkinsDeeperSurfaceStorytellingGenreRelatedLayersBeneath The Surface Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.” WritingSongFunExcitingStorytelling Author:The Rocket Summer
“Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.” PeopleShouldFirstsHumansKindHas BeensStillsDifferentStoriesLastsCoursesVoiceSleepPowerfulMorningNovelCuttingElementsToolsNotesNotionRadioStorytellingMediumsNarrativeNovelistsLogicalShiftingHuman Voice Author:Daniel Alarcon
“I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.” KindIdeasEndsStoriesFieldsStructureDepthSurfaceStorytellingCinemaCarrieFlatsInfinityImaginativeCarpetTerrificReflectingWoven Author:Marina Warner
“I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.” WantFeelsStillsEndsStoriesShowsProcessCan DoTelevisionEndlessStorytellingStorytellerCablesSerialsStreaming Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“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.” TryingWiseConnectedStorytellingFilmmakingBiased Author:John Krasinski
“In film, you have to present everything on the screen so it's the opposite of what I usually do with storytelling. It forced me to think about how people walk, where they sit at that moment. With Princess of Nebraska, it was just fun to watch because the movie was so far from the story. It was very much a different story.” PeopleThinkingDifferentMomentsStoriesFilmFunWalksWatchesOppositesScreensStorytellingThat MomentPrincessNebraska Author:Yiyun Li
“I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.” ThinkingTryingFocusEasierPagesStorytelling Author:Jim Lee
“What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.” PeopleGivingHumansI CanInterestCommunityStreetsRocksGiving UpConnectionsActivismStorytellingMaking MoneyMore MoneyHuman ConnectionShared ExperiencesCellists Author:Ben Sollee
“Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.” WayHumansUniverseActingMysteryStorytellingHuman Experience Author:Mariana Klaveno
“Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.” EvilSidesLinesSixDrawsStorytellingWickedGood And EvilSixty Author:Christopher Meledandri
“I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.” ThinkingImportantFilmSpaceScenePlanningStorytellingFilmmakerComponentsStandpointStaging Author:Christopher Meledandri
“Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.” RealityFormGamesExcitingVideoStorytellingVirtual Reality Author:Jane Rosenthal
“I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two things. One is, you definitely have to have surprises and changes so that people are - you keep them interested, you take them down roads that they didn't expect and give them suspense and surprise.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWellsTwoStoriesChallengesSurpriseStorytellingHopefullySuspenseTwo ThingsDown The RoadGood Storytelling Author:Kimberly Peirce
“If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to stories that we love - so, even if there is a familiarity, if you can do it a different way and hopefully do it well enough, you actually feel the satisfaction of that anticipation given back to you.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWellsDifferentReasonEnoughStoriesMightGivenCan DoSatisfactionStorytellingHopefullyDifferent WaysAnticipationYou Can Do ItFamiliarityAnticipateGood Storytelling Author:Kimberly Peirce
“There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there are definitely some times that we went digital and you're not going to tell the difference, I don't think. I think it just serves the storytelling because that's just the era that we live in.” ThinkingSchoolFoundDifferencesNumbersSpecialEffectsStorytellingFantasticErasDigitalOld SchoolSpecial Effects Author:Kimberly Peirce
“While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought was really beautifully written, it doesn't really need a movie because it is a movie. So I think you need a unique game - you either need an incredibly talented writer and director to come in and put together an amazing vision, or you need a game like Metal Gear, which is very cinematic, has a huge amount of history behind it, but whose cinematic experience is very different from what you'd get in a theater.” ThinkingNeedsLooksDifferentTogetherGamesBehindsVisionWrittenHugeAmountDirectorsUniqueTheaterStorytellingMetalsTheftGearsCinematicReally BeautifulGrand Theft AutoMetal Gear Author:David Hayter
“I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying to guess and decipher how one story will connect with another.” TryingStoriesPastEnjoyAudienceStorytellingDecipherCollidePastiche Author:Tim Kring
“I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.” PeopleThinkingReasonStoriesAgeSeeingTvsIndustryHappeningsOriginalsHearingHungryStorytellingGoldenMediumsGuiltyAgain And AgainSequelsGolden Age Author:J. J. Abrams
“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.” ThinkingWayHeartHardStoriesCausesMistakeSilenceLaughingHorrorPureElementsDefinitionsMonstersStorytellingClassicBroadsVillainLambsThrillersProtagonistsHorror StoriesSneaky Author:Bryan Fuller
“I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling.” WantLooksImportantDifferentFormCultureStuffInterestingFieldsStorytellingMagazinesBordersPopular CultureSmall Parts Author:Toni Jerrman
“Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a different perspective. It sounds romantic, but it's not an easy process at all.” KnowsWorldDifferentEasyProcessSoundPerspectiveLosingStorytellingDifferent PerspectivePreconceptions Author:Ciro Guerra
“I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.” WorldTraditionBackgroundsStorytellingFilmmakingMutants Author:Alex Gibney
“I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.” IfsShowsHomeFilmActorsChallengesPowerfulCareersAudienceWiseTvsIndustryPeriodsEasierSeriesTheatreStorytellingIntimateComing HomeViewersBroadwayAnd OffNetflixBroadway ShowsTractionLonger Life Author:Steven C. Harper
“I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always been with my body, if I can combine the two I find it really liberating.” IfsThinkingWayPersonsI CanTwoBodyStorytellingMy WayPerformingLiberatingExplaining Author:Zoe Bell
“If I am a fan of my own music, which I am, I want to hear the best Madchild I can hear. What am I missing? I sort of had a good talk with some close friends of mine that I really respect and look up to in music as well and we all just came to the conclusion, just some more storytelling songs of things I have gone through.” IfsWantWellsLooksI CanSongMy OwnGoneFansMissingMinesStorytellingConclusionLook UpClose Friends Author:Shane Bunting
“People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.” PeopleIfsWorldSeemsChangedTelevisionFitStorytelling Author:Jade Hassoune
“I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.” WesternStorytelling Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.” IfsPersonsEndsSongTroubleMarriedStorytellingGetting MarriedVisa Author:Jens Lekman
“I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.” DoneStoriesWantedFormPayTraditionStorytellingComicVisualsHomageStrandsVisual Storytelling Author:Arvind Ethan David
“I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery.” WayWritingSongFoundSoundListeningGrewGrew UpDiscoveryTheaterMusicalStorytellingJoyfulArrangementsEmphasisMusical TheaterOrchestration Author:Sara Bareilles
“There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.” LittlesStoriesWould BeFilmRichSilentWesternDialogueStorytellingJohnsonOutlawWalesVacantCaptivatingJeremiah Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.” WayWantFeelsWritingHeartStillsFeelingsAbleSongVoicePerfectRecordsHonestStyleMy HeartFolksAlbumsTalesStorytellingSavingLayers Author:Lykke Li
“I love what I do and I love being part of the storytelling process. And I love the technological advancements. It was the thing that kept me going on every 20-hour day, 7 days a week. You have to love it to do that.” ProcessHoursLove IsWeekStorytellingTechnologicalAdvancementTechnological Advancement Author:Christine Bieselin Clark
“I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...” BookKidsLove IsAdventureStorytellingSurvivorOnce Upon A TimeAdventure Books Author:Jeff Probst
“What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.” CountryParticularJazzFolksStorytellingGenre Author:Lizz Wright
“Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.” PersonsIdeasStoriesAbleCultureStrongPiecesExpressionCommunicationAuthorityMassStorytellingSufficientVery StrongDocumentsIntroductionPrintingRelaysMass CommunicationGutenberg Author:Khoi Vinh
“The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.” EndsHappensKnowingHardestStorytelling Author:Tye Sheridan
“There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.” StorytellingGenreAustria Author:Susanne Wuest
“Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.” MagicStorytellingVisualsVividPixar Author:Peter Travers
“Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.” IfsKnowsTryingSaidImportantStatesCharacterTermSceneAnxietyAccomplishStorytellingVulnerabilityCatchingPitchingTouchstones Author:Susan Sarandon
“With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.” DifferentPiecesTvsStorytellingMediumsPuzzles Author:Juliette Lewis
“I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.” IfsI CanCan DoPaintStorytellingMassage Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStoriesPoliticalInterestingThis WorldPerspectiveBalanceStorytellingTelling StoriesImpasse Author:Reese Witherspoon