Storytellers Quotes

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.