#tellin

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#i #keep #like #simple #stories

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

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' ↗

— David Byrne

#call #civic #distance #doing #engagement

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

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. ↗

— Jane Campion

#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #compliments #cowards #deserve #english

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#fairy #i #interpreter #like #perform

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that. ↗

— Perry Como

#always #body #breathe #coaches #doing

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?' ↗

— Ice Cube

#america #been #down #fair #foot

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#away #friend #gives #horror #i