Storytelling Importance Quotes

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

Stories matter to me. I look for a good script, story, and a strong part.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

Every villain needs her story told.

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.

Folktales are real.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

Both 'Mabo' and 'The Sapphires' have been significant roles because it's about my people. They are celebratory stories, on top of allowing people to understand our history.