Telling Stories Quotes

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

I like telling stories.

Literature is about telling stories.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.