Storytelling Quotes

I'm more interested in the technique of storytelling by means of film rather than in what the film contains.

GIve me a copper coin and I will tell you a golden tale.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

“Of course it’s a true story… But it may not have happened”

“Of course it’s a true story… But it may not have happened”

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

Be sure to pick the right medium for the job:
- Audio is intimate.
- Video is expressive and illustrative.
- Text is faster to read than audio or video is to consume, easier to transfer, and simpler to produce.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Ay, now the plot thickens very much upon us.

The best way to teach people is by telling a story.

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

It is the mystery that lingers, and not the explanation

The best storytelling devices are, and have always been, rooted in human behaviours and desires

'Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.