#storyteller

I'm just a storyteller. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#just #storyteller

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots. ↗

— John Crowley

#film #form #fundamentally #good #had

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

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#away #give #great #mark #never

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#great #jo #need #needs #stories

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

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#even #i #i think #like #look

I'm a good storyteller. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#i #storyteller

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That’s when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#gingerbread #gingerbread-house #holiday #holidays #house

My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental --- for the externals, --- no eye for the hod of the rag-picker or the fine linen of the next mean. Next man---that's it. I have met so many men." he pursued, with momentary sadness--- "met them too with a certain, certain impact, let us say; like this fellow, for instance--- and in each case all I could see was merely a human being. A confounded democratic quality of vision which may be better than total blindness, but has been of no advantage to me-- I can assure you. Men expect one to take into account their fine linen. But I never could get up any enthusiasm about these things. Oh! It's a failing; and then comes a soft evening; a lot of men too indolent for whist-- and a story...." [p.44] ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#naivety #point-of-view #storytellers #men

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

— John Milius

#either #storyteller #writer #you