Storytelling Quotes

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk

History, Movies, Between

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
Quentin Tarantino

Actually, Strengths

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt

Meaning, Error, Defining

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History, Someone, Human

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?
Martin Scorsese

Forward, Moving, Important

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
Martin Scorsese

Matter, Subject, Tolerate

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.
Simon Mainwaring

Emotional, Through, Treat

Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.
Simon Mainwaring

Reality, Service, Social

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
Russell Banks

History, Allegiance, Major

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
Simon Mainwaring

Social, Marketing, Needs

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri

Human, Tell, Fact

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
Keanu Reeves

Here, Talking, Seen

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.
Susan Orlean

Trying, Thought, After

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

Tradition, Folk, Narrative

I love storytelling.
Billie Joe Armstrong

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

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin

Truth, Art, Wisdom

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White

Music, Down, Broken

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh

Place, Story, Everybody

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Jane Campion

Freedom, Different, Short

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

Natural, Internet, Shared

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
Dick Wolf

Character, Book, Writing

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
Joyce Carol Oates

Love, Time, Tell

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
John le Carre

Business, Mean, Making

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
Eric Bana

Writing, Creative, Whole

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
John Lasseter

Great, Bad, Children

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
Kevin Smith

Life, Writing, Down

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Game, Why, Makes

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Karen Armstrong

Long, Act, Fine

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. Abrams

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