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Storytelling Quotes

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It’s all about storytelling.

– Gil Penchina

Theater and film are essentially the same – just different kinds of storytelling.

– Howard Shore

Part of George R.R. Martin’s brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

– Harry Lloyd

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

– Hannah Arendt

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

– Hope Davis

Obviously, you’re trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I’m trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.

– Jay Parini

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

– J. M. Coetzee

I mean, I’m in the business of storytelling, not message making.

– John le Carre

‘The Authority,’ by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.

– Jim Lee

My style is colloquial storytelling. It’s the way we tell stories to one another – it’s not writerly, it’s not overdone.

– James Patterson

I’m a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

– John Lasseter

Casting is storytelling.

– Joss Whedon

It’s a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

– J. J. Abrams

I need people – theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

– Joel Salatin

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what’s really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It’s our natural way to be communal.

– Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The basic rule of storytelling is ‘show, don’t tell.’

– Julianna Baggott

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting… But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it’s such a natural activity, storytelling.

– Jim Crace

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

– Bruce Springsteen

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett’s more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

– Alaya Dawn Johnson

When you’re an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.

– Bonnie Hunt

I’ve been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

– Brian De Palma

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you’re really connecting.

– Casey Kasem

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

– Ashwin Sanghi

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

– Casey Kasem

It’s how I express myself – through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

– Alexia Fast

I am really interested in storytelling in general – nothing is off-limits!

– Brianna Hildebrand

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

– Astro Teller

We’re so complex; we’re mysteries to ourselves; we’re difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we’re all the same.

– Brad Pitt

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

– Aml Ameen

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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