Storyteller Quotes

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

I'm a storyteller.

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

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.