Quotes with storytelling

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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Aaron Stanford Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Brian De Palma But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard 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.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bradley Cooper Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
    Bradley Cooper
    American actor and filmmaker (1975 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Brian De Palma So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • B. B. King Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Tim O'Brien Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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