386 Storytelling Quotes for You to Enjoy

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. Nick Nolte

You Value Audience Doing Shock Trying Storytelling

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. Nicolas Cage

Opportunity Pain Way Solve Storytelling Use Actor

I'm a fan of great storytelling. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Great Fan Storytelling

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. Nina Arianda

Love Queen All Things Songs Storytelling Epic Things

I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true. Noah Hawley

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One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between good and bad and right and wrong is. Noah Hawley

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV. Paolo Bacigalupi

We need storytelling from all angles. We need men, women, and trans people participating in all aspects of filmmaking; this is the only way we can depolarise the age-old standard of singular perspective. Parvathy

Women People Perspective Men Way Angles Only Participating Singular Age-Old Storytelling Aspects Standard Need Filmmaking

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. Paul Di Filippo

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My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion. Paul Greengrass

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The thing that I get most excited about is that it does feel like a new realm of storytelling is being created before everybody's eyes. You can do something that's not exactly a movie and not exactly a TV show, something in between. Paul Rust

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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling. Paul Thomas Anderson

Never Been Fan Whimsical Storytelling Confusing

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her? Per Petterson

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Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game. Peter Guber

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To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling. Peter Landesman

Me Complete Most Method Storytelling Film

Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.' R. J. Cutler

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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes. Rachel Bloom

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While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write. Raftaar

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Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the more they can speak to the culture, the more powerful their stories will be. Regina Doman

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In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. Rhys Ifans

Singing Party Wales Storytelling Skills Professions

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's kind of the birthplace of great storytelling. Richard Dormer

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