Storytelling Quotes

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

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

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

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

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

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

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

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

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.

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

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

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.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

We are the storytelling animal.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

It's my passion, that's what I wanna do, it's the end goal, that's what I crave every second of the day is to be working on a production but also to be the person leading the production and guiding the pacing of the storytelling.

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

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

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

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

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

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

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

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.