Steve Martin Quotes

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

The medium is secondary to the stories.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

It's always the story that interests me.

People love stories. They need stories.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

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

You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

I don't want to lose an opportunity to tell an interesting story.

I want to tell stories of impact.

My main goal is to tell a story.