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“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.”

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Author:Alan Ball

“Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.”

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Author:Ted Lange

“If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.”

Has Beens Majors Storytelling Allegiance

Author:Russell Banks

“Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.”

Two Character Storytelling Two Things Plot

Author:George Lucas

“For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.”

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Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters; to trust characters and hate other characters, but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling in my book.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.”

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Author:James McAvoy

“I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.”

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Author:Tim O'Brien

“No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”

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Author:Ben Okri

“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”

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Author:Ben Okri

“I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.”

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Author:James Patterson

“I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”

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Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”

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Author:Walter Benjamin

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”

Source: It's Always Something

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.”

Source: It's Always Something

“Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.”

Humans Important Storytelling Continuity

Author:Robert Redford

“But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

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Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“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.'”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

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Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“We are the storytelling animal.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.”

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Author:Ed Sheeran

“Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.”

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Author:Kevin Smith

“The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.”

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Author:Matt Smith

“I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.”

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Author:Ian Somerhalder

“It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.”

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Author:Donna Tartt

“But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.”

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Author:Guillermo del Toro

“Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

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