Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He’s like an H. C. Andersen for adults.
George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
I am a storyteller by trade.
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I’m lucky, really good ones. It’s a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that’s, I think, what keeps me hopeful.
I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.
To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I’m not always driven by the best commercial sense.
I would say I’m a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to have a story idea, and I decided to write a novel with it instead, I’d have to very consciously de-couple it from gamedom – for example, deliberately add in things that could not be represented in a game scene.
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her – yes, put it down to my mother.
I’ve read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn’t pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I’ve also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They’re the storytellers. If you don’t have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.
My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.
I’ve always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That’s my sadistic thought as a storyteller.
My dad is a storyteller. I’ve heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them so brilliantly and still knows where to put the funny bit.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
It’s fun to do accents; it’s fun to do different periods – that’s why you become an actor. Because it’s fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.
There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.
I’m a storyteller.
I like being a storyteller. I’m bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it’s about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
Young women should be telling stories of other young women. And if the superstar who is an amazing storyteller isn’t a writer, that’s totally fine, but we should get a young female writer in the room to work on that song with us.
I’m a sarcastic, observational storyteller.
I didn’t know anybody who was a filmmaker – there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I’ve always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller.
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I’d like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.
Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember – my dad is also an actor and a director and a storyteller who lives and works in the Twin Cities; my mom is a nurse practitioner, but she also grew up doing theatre – so, it has always been a part of my experience.
I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It’s imperative as an artist.
I don’t see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.
I’m just a storyteller.
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
There’s a reason a happy ending is called an ending. The trick of a television storyteller is to find all the rivers and mountains and valleys on the way to that ending.
I’m not a twentieth-century novelist, I’m not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I’m old-fashioned, a storyteller. I’m not an analyst, and I’m not an intellectual.
Look, I’m just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I’ll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it’s OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it’s how Richard Lewis feels about it. I’m a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.
On a practical level I’m a TV producer and storyteller who’s gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I’m endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why… and how they feel about it. Which means I’m interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It’s my kind of storytelling.
From early on there were two things that filled my life – music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.
I’m a very observational storyteller, and I’m always relational – a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it’s me with my husband, me with my mom or my siblings.
As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.
One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
I don’t think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that’s crazy. Because I should. That’s what I do. But I don’t actually see that as my job. It’s why my business cards say ‘storyteller.’
Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.
I’m a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that’s what I do.
If I as a storyteller and performer get to participate in something that can potentially elevate something in society, morally? I’m all for it.
Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.
No, you’re either born a writer, a storyteller, or you’re not.
Don’t ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they’ve put the book down, thinking about the tale that’s become a part of them.
I’m a storyteller – that’s my chamber, that’s my box. I’m always tryin’ to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
