#telling

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#storytelling #art

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ↗

— Charles Ray

#culture #storytelling #writing #art

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. ↗

— Alan Moore

#parables #storytelling #true

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#change #good #happen #happened #me

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#band #been #ever #fighter #fights

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. ↗

— Shakira

#heart #i #lie #me #pretty

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#business #count #get #high #history

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#been #beginning #beings #human #human beings

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #history #major #storytelling