Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.
. . . I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.
I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.
I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
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.
