Storytelling quotes

“- Ward Douglas: My girlfriend was there, because... There was this wild man there and she...
- Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: Son, is this a long story?
- Ward Douglas: Yes, sir.
- Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: Well, then, save it.”
Ned Beatty - Ward Douglas
Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

“My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room, it will magically do it by itself! This entire script...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“You've heard the story of Jesse James of how he lived and died, if your still in need of something to read heres the story of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Faye Dunaway - Bonnie Parker

“Did you ever wonder if you had the dreams because we told you the stories, or if we told you the stories to explain your dreams?”
Donald Hotton - Ask Franag

“That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. ”
Ian McDiarmid

“- Receptionist: Does he have Alzheimer's?
- David Grant: No, he just believes what people tell him.
- Receptionist: That's too bad.”
Melinda Simonsen - Receptionist
Will Forte - David Grant

“- Jimmy: It's not an adventure story. Is it, Mr. Hayes?
- Hayes: No, Jimmy. It's not.”

Jamie Bell - Jimmy
Evan Parke - Hayes

“- Frank Walker: Do you want to tell the story?
- Casey Newton: No, you're doing fine.
- Frank Walker: Because if you think you can tell the story better, I would absolutely love to hear you try...
- Casey Newton: Wow really?
- Frank Walker: Really!
- Casey Newton: Well I guess technically I am more qualified...
- Frank Walker: Are you? How so?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Clooney - Frank Walker
Britt Robertson - Casey Newton

“If I'm going to be a preacher one day, I gotta know the Bible front to back. I mean, you can't help nobody if you can't tell them the right story.”
Lucas Till - Young Jack Cash

“- Joe Stafford: You really believe your little story's gonna make a difference when there's a gun to our heads?
- Tony Mendez: I think my story's the only thing between you and a gun to your head.”
Scoot McNairy - Joe Stafford
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“- Milo Hoffman: Now I'm going to go out on a limb here because there's a very good chance you're not going to believe a word of what I'm about to tell you.
- Bob Shrot: You'd be surprised what I'd believe about these people.”
Ryan Phillippe - Milo Hoffman
Douglas McFerran - Bob Shrot

“I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“Hugh and Renee never had children. They all died at birth. And a few years later, Renee passed away and Crain became a total recluse. But he kept on building. Building room upon room as if he was building for the familiy he would never have. No one had seen Crain for years. But the townspeople said they could hear sounds coming from the old...” (continue)(continue reading)

Liam Neeson - Dr. David Marrow

“The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.”
Danny Huston

“There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.”
Heather Graham

“That's a complicated story. It begins a year ago. But let's skip that.”

Sir Michael Caine - Brad Crane

“- Narrator: It wasn't until I was 10 years old that I asked my grandfather about the man with the longest and most enigmatic name of all.
- Grandfather: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain? Now there's a long name for you. And a long story. You are not going to forget, are you? For this is a story... an epic story. Yes, epic.”
Nicholas McGaughey - Narrator
Jack Walters - Grandfather

“- John Billings: There's a story going around 'bout how some twenty Redcoats got killed by a ghost or some damn thing, carried a Cherokee tomahawk.
- Benjamin Martin: Aren't you a little old to be believing in ghost stories?”
Leon Rippy - John Billings
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“We no take gasoline, we no take the airplane. We take steamship. And that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean.”

Chico Marx - Fiorello

“You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.”
Robert Wise

“I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it.”
Robert Wise

“- Wild Writer: What if the wife smashes him over the head, with a frying pan, and then chops him up into hundreds of tiny pieces with her shiny new carving knife?
- Father Writer: No, I don't think so.
- Son Writer: It's a family show!
- Wild Writer: Okay, then what if she does it to the whole family?”
Bobcat Goldthwait - Wild Writer
Robert Klein - Father Writer
Peter MacNicol - Son Writer

“They're never going to believe this at school.”

Jared Rushton - Ron Thompson

“- Keefer: So, what is your story, bitch? Mmmh?
- Grace Lashield: I'm stuck in an island run by assholes. What's yours?”
Trevor Goddard - Keefer
Catherine Bell - Grace Lashield