Storyteller Quotes

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 like to think of myself as a storyteller.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

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.

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

I'm a storyteller.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

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.

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.

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.

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'm just a storyteller.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

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

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.