Storyteller Quotes

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

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.

I'm a good storyteller.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

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

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

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

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

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

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

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.