#teller

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#play #story #storyteller #telling #violin

I'm just a storyteller. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#just #storyteller

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

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#american #american family #became #began #break-up

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

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#both sides #fair #i #myself #political

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#duty #emotions #go #places #sometimes

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#academy award #always #approach #award #been

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#escape #frederick-weisel #teller #weisel #life