Jiang Wen Quotes

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

I like telling stories.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

I am a storyteller by trade.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

I'm just a storyteller.

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

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

People love stories. They need stories.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

All the great history has been written with passion …. Fiction is history from below.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

I really love storytelling.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I'm just a story teller.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.