Steve Sabol Quotes

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

A good story never dies.

You become big only when you have great stories to tell.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.