John Berger Quotes

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

What I find really exciting is stories from a different viewpoint.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

I know when someone that's not you tries to tell your story, especially when you don't look like the person whose story you're trying to tell, you're going to screw it up. And the only way to get it right is to have them be as involved as possible.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

We have African-Americans and black people getting behind the scenes more and more, we get true black images in television and film...because we have black people behind them. They can tell stories from those points of view and bring to life those characters who have yet to be shown. As long as we have people behind the camera just as much as in front of the camera doing the work, then we'll always be good.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.