Storyteller Quotes

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

I'm just a storyteller.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.

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.