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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

This script is a real thriller that pulled me in right from the beginning. The 'what if' premise delivers on the edge of your seat anticipation, and is a perfect fit for the channel. Joe Miller's journey, fueled by a father's desperate search for his missing daughter, is compelling storytelling that will truly engage the audience.

Mark Stern

You see people taking storytelling more seriously, ... Shows like 'Lost' and '24' have complex narratives you couldn't think about doing in film.

Jeffrey Sconce

I think there are cycles in the film business. Two-dimensional animation is coming to an end in terms of what was the height of Disney storytelling.

Anne Thompson

This had mythical proportions. A beautiful blond guy, his wife and this mysterious woman who gets under the husband's skin. It's basic storytelling.

Larry Hackett

The tsunami is a critical component in the telling of this story. It's a sensitive storytelling issue.

John Dykstra

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Malcolm Gladwell

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Walter Benjamin

[The film 24 Hour Party People offers a spirited piece of advice when it comes to the art of storytelling.] When you have to choose between truth and legend, ... I say choose the legend.

Tony Wilson

We Three Apples, we try to cater to a range of people in the storytelling community - from the listener to the amateur to the professional.

Susan Harris

I think the business of TV is changing . . . and that serialized shows make more economic sense, one being 24. What's really driving the networks' openness to this type of storytelling is that DVD sales on the back end can make it a viable financial model.

Josh Pate

I think we can bring a focus to (hockey) and storytelling and coverage that will be something new. We're optimistic about growing the sport.

Gavin Harvey

I've been to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and we were delighted that things worked out so we could be here this weekend.

Jim Rhodes

There's nothing like it that can combine the things that are there, ... The art of drawing and painting ... music, dance, storytelling. All of these things in one package.

Marc Davis

How do you tap into the audience to contribute more to overall storytelling experience? Every phone capable of delivering video is also capable of capturing video. During the London bombings, a lot of photography was generated by user cell phones. How do you create a community around that usage? That's one of the areas that tops my mind.

Salil Dalvi

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Tom Brokaw

Beautiful spaces create beautiful mindsĀ©. The Wren's Nest's backyard of rolling land lovingly renovated into a cross-generational reading garden invites reading, storytelling and reflection with flowers, plants, trees, bushes, benches, paths and other touches.

Heidi Ketvertis

They've got the great benefit of having eight years of our storytelling to make fun of. I wish that I could sort of slip them some story lines because I know I've got some good ones for them.

Noah Wyle

It becomes a public resource and a source of stories. It is a great resource from a storytelling point of view.

Hugh Martin

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

Joe Rohde

We take very seriously our charge to tell the stories of this community. These numbers tell everyone at KARE 11 that we are connecting with our viewers and we will recommit to our long-term game plan of photography, storytelling and community.

Tom Lindner

I think there's some danger of losing track. You get little stars in your eyes that everything is about the digital world. What we're focused on is great storytelling. The medium is not the message in this case. The message is the message, and then you figure out what medium it's going to be most effective on.

Rome Hartman

It's old-fashioned storytelling. The importance is that belief that spring is around the corner.

Joe Reilly

When I started to learn my role, she very much emphasized that the most important part of performing was the storytelling. She would teach us the steps and get all worried about pulling off specific turns and jumps, but then she . . . would make us act out the scenes without saying a single word.

Brendan King

It visits the magic enchantment of Korean storytelling and South Asian dance.

Niki Burgham

Disney's challenged the zoo world to up the ante. The trend is to be more theatrical, put storytelling in there. But they shouldn't try to go to the level of 'faux authenticity' that Disney can achieve.

James Zoltak

The idea of the show came about because I had the intuition that faith is also a part of making art. ... There is this notion in the art world that faith is not a part of the territory, and I think that is changing. The storytelling, the materiality of religion is becoming more recognized as a part of making art.

James Hyde

Hong Kong Disneyland will have the classic Disneyland design, ... combined with cultural adaptations that enhance our storytelling and guests' enjoyment of the wonderful entertainment that awaits them.

Don Robinson

So why join the Storytelling Club? Because the shortest distance between truth and human beings is a story.

Anne Beardsley

This is building from the African tradition of storytelling.

Fayanne Hayes

We didn't want to burden the series with the 10 most important events. We wanted days that offered interesting storytelling or days where the outcome was unexpected.

Joe Berlinger

One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.

Keanu Reeves

To just plug songs in wouldn't really help the storytelling.

Chad Beguelin

If the filmmaker has not done the work to grab the viewer with compelling storytelling, then the shock will probably be little more than a passing gimmick or an obscenity.

Scott Higgins

It's about the play. Where does it need to be really spare? Where do you need to start to drive the tempo? You figure out the tempo of the scene and support it. Basically, it's how to keep the storytelling clear, how to support it and, ideally, enhance it.

Douglas Levine

Because there are such vivid stories and characters in Bruce Springsteen's music, we decided to let the lyrics do a lot of the storytelling for us, instead of depending on dialogue. In this case, I chose the songs first and then designed the story around them.

Meredith Stiehm

My wife had been teaching, on and off, since the early '70s and, when we moved here in 1983, she restarted her teaching career in Fairfax County, ... I got into Northern Virginia's Cultural Arts program, doing storytelling at school assemblies.

Jim Baldwin

I think I'm part of the last generation of songwriters that are really influenced by where they grew up because things these days are becoming more and more homogenized, ... My family comes from an area with lots of rich music ... hill music that was surrounded by storytelling, so it seemed natural to me.

Greg Brown

In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.

William Collins

I'm pretty good at doing Super Bowls and Final Fours, ... I understand those are different from elections or conventions, but there are more similarities than differences. I pride myself on really good storytelling. We do a lot of really good reporting, although the subject matter may be different, steroids or coaching changes.

Sean Mcmanus

His wide range of creative, financial and business experience, his commitment to storytelling featuring members of under-represented communities, and his insight into the North American film and television industry make Michael Jenkinson the ideal choice.

Wayne Clarkson

The Dreaming has turned out to be one amazing book. The atmosphere Queenie Chan creates, through both her art and her storytelling, is about as rich and effective as I've seen in any suspense-horror manga.

Carol Fox

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

James Nathan Miller

With the multiple storylines and recurring characters, they took storytelling for the masses and made it into something sophisticated, intelligent and emotionally complicated.

Mark Tinker

Storytelling will always be the most important aspect of a show. It doesn't matter if it's online, if viewers are offering input or if it's bringing together different online properties. It will be the same online as it is around the campfire: if you can't tell a good story, nobody will listen.

Mark Burnett

Stories matter and need to be heard, ... I ask my students after they've read a book, 'do you feel enlarged? Have you grown from it?' which is the same thing I ask myself. I'm not going to impose anything on anyone; I just want to remind people of the power of storytelling.

Rose Quiello

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling.

Richard Lewis

Everything, on one level or another, gets covered. You never lose the honesty of the storytelling.

John Doyle

Oh, the humor! It's hysterical. And it's smart and goofy at the same time, kind of like a Neil Simon play or a Mel Brooks movie. I read it over and over again, and it changed me in the way of storytelling, seeing things differently.

Rosie Perez

Storytelling is for all people. Storytelling is alive and well because people are so hungry for stories, they'll watch TV six hours a day.

David Gonzalez

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Ben Okri

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

Robert Penn Warren

It's always hard to see one of us go, because you know, we have such a strong bond with one another, and we were the original group. We missed Ian when he left. We still miss Ian, and we're going to miss [Maggie] too. But at the same time, we know that that's the kind of storytelling they're doing.

Daniel Dae Kim

We trust our producers to be creative in their storytelling and follow their creative path.

Nina Tassler

Storytelling is at the heart of what we do, ... We both strive to capture and reflect the full range of human emotion, whether it is on a stage or in a song.

Ed Benson

Joan Collins is the queen of the archetype. How do you get that? You get it in the storytelling, obviously, but the actress herself, her personality, brought something to that role which I don't think anybody else could have done.

E. Duke Vincent