Best Storytelling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 29

“When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.”

Knows Mean Reason Stories Moving Shots Standing Cameras Edges Storytelling Movie Roof Cinematography Cranes Standing On The Edge

Author:Roger Deakins

“Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.”

Passion Reading Storytelling My Passion Love Of Reading

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.”

People Stories Form Dies Pay Highest Circles Storytelling Misunderstood Refrain Being Misunderstood

Book:The Flame Alphabet

Source: The Flame Alphabet

“It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.”

Seems Talent Storytelling Irresponsible Crafty

Book:Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu

Source: Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu

“I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling”

Form Sound Expression Silent Storytelling Devices Fascinated Format Specialists Silent Movies Talkies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying”

Ifs Knows Stories Turns Actors Sound Emotion Casts Storytelling Turn Off Great Actors

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.”

“Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.”

Skills Storytelling Underrated

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.”

Way Giving Self Stories Self Esteem Proud Active Storytelling Esteem Wiring

Author:Paul Zindel

“If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Hard Stories Couple Scene Storytelling Garbage Screenplays Screenwriters Screenwriting

Book:A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking

Source: A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking

“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”

Humans Stories Powerful Creative Meaningful Conversion Storytelling Contact Currency Storyteller

Author:Robert McKee

“A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.”

Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves”

“The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.”

World Art Storytelling

Author:Cecil B. DeMille

“I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.”

Heart Special My Heart Storytelling Special Places Dynasty Tudors

Author:Natalie

“For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.”

Thinking Littles Stories Rooms Television Approach Conservative Storytelling Mainstream Cables Nbc

Author:Gabriel Macht

“So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.”

“In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.”

People Years Inspiration Motivation Gone Wall Internet Storytelling Hunting Caves

Author:Joe Sabia

“Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.”

World Stories Use Our Lives Logic Storytelling Make Sense Vehicle

Author:Jim Trelease

“I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.”

Thinking Men Way He Man Shadow Tradition Tales Storytelling Remembered Village Storyteller Campfire Oral Tradition Troubadours

Book:The Shadow Riders

Source: The Shadow Riders

“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”

Thinking Stories Jokes Storytelling Storyteller Powerless New Thought Power Of Stories

Author:Salman Rushdie

“You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.”

Ifs Sells Marketing Storytelling Great Marketing

Author:Beth Comstock

“I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.”

World Eye Romance My Own Love Is Particular Competition Storytelling Shy Relentless Armor Reluctant Toughness Public Eye Craftsmanship

Author:Sarah Burton

“The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.”

Movement Function Cameras Storytelling

Book:Digital Film-Making

Source: Digital Film-Making

“I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.”

Long Reading Letters Distance Storytelling Dedication Long Distance Distance Relationship

Author:Casey Kasem

“If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.”

Ifs Kind Important Interesting Support Design Important Things Theatre Storytelling Relate Narrative Designer

Author:Christine Jones

“I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.”

People Helping Reality Song Process Powerful Rocks Example Quiet Conversation Everyday Storytelling Narrative Reality Of Life Our Society Listeners Helping People Rock Music

Author:Stephan Jenkins

“Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.”

Needs Stories Medicine Storytelling

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.”

May Stories Bigs Forever Storytelling Hunting Storyteller Prey Australian Stalking Predator Retelling Tracking Sniffing Power Of Stories Predators And Prey

Author:Robert Moss

“Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.”

Writing Book Stories Choices Storytelling

Author:Richard Denney

“Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.”

May Stories Social Interest Groups Movement Storytelling Social Movements Interest Groups

Author:Marshall Ganz

“Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.”

Said Young Political Watches Hero Smart Financial International Storytelling Novelists Unlikely Fast Paced Thrillers Analysts Edgy Debut Savvy Unlikely Heroes

Author:Alafair Burke

“Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.”

“Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.”

“William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.”

“It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.”

World Magic Storytelling Another World

Author:Val McDermid

“I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.”

People Men Art Book Belief Painting Art Is Storytelling Barriers Sculpture

Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.”

Beautiful Storytelling Sensual

Author:Cheyenne McCray

“I tell a story, and therefore I exist.”

Inspirational Stories Existence Directors Storytelling Producers

Author:Shekhar Kapur

“Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.”

“Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.”

Storytelling

Author:Donald Davis

“It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.”

Needs Humans Has Beens Said Next Hunger Storytelling Thirst Human Needs Hunger And Thirst Basic Human Needs

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.”

Two Stories Fall Air Storytelling Two Things

Author:Pablo Neruda

“The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.”

Storytelling Bridges Gaps

Author:Paulo Coelho

“An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.”

People Care Storytelling Awful

Author:Steven Moffat

“The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.”

Stories Sound Our Lives Storytelling Dominant

Book:Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir

Source: Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir

“There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.”

Writing Doe Values Storytelling

Author:Orson Scott Card

“I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.”

Thinking Humans Humanity Technology Concern Storytelling Digital Digital Technology

Author:David Fincher

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.”

Book Stories Reading Four Wall Reader Storytelling Reading Books Roof Book Reading Book Readers Four Walls Reading Stories

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”

Stories Hours Hero Storytelling Leisure

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

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