Storyteller Quotes

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

I'm a good storyteller.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

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.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

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.

I'm a storyteller.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

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.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.