#storytelling

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. ↗

— Russell Banks

#ancient #been #community #embrace #enough

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#defining #error #meaning #reveals #storytelling

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#encourage #fine #long #people #stories

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. ↗

— Sean Bean

#classic #exploded #find #future #hopefully

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #characteristics #different #extremely #fair

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#definitely #historical #history #i #i think

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#engaged #format #forward #long #matter

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#pain #solve #storytelling #use #way

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ↗

— Jane Campion

#different #film-makers #films #freedom #gives

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. ↗

— Lee Child

#dawn #goes #invention #probably #recent