telling stories Quotes

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Every story has a place where it deserves to be told.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes.

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.