Storytelling Quotes

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."

Tim O'Brien

"A true war story is never moral."

Tim O'Brien

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."

"I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is not."

Malala Yousafzai

"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."

Laurie Anderson

"Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience."

Robert McKee

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

"Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell."

Louisa May Alcott

“Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.”

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

“We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”

“Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.”

“My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.”

“I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.”

“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true storyteller who would keep that from you.”

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."

Jean-Luc Godard

"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more."

Steven Spielberg

"A special effect is a tool, a means to telling a story."

George Lucas

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

Orson Welles

"Make me care."

Andrew Stanton

"Storytelling is the creative demonstration of truth."

Robert McKee