#storyteller

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#because #directing #director #directors #focus

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. ↗

— Sandra Dallas

#storytelling #storytelling

Obscurity is never a virtue. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#storytelling

The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#the-storyteller #storytelling

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#storytelling #storytelling

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. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#amazing #father #felt #footnote #his

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

— Spike Lee

#i #i love #love #motivation #story

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #myself #really #stories #storyteller

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers