Having all the gear is one thing.
Working together to put your Story on Film
is cutting the mustard...
And it’s the fun part.
Having all the gear is one thing.
And working together to
put your Story on Film is cutting the mustard...
And it’s the fun part.
“We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.”
⁓ Willy Wonka (magician, chocolatier)
“We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.”
⁓ Willy Wonka (magician, chocolatier)
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”
⁓ Terry Pratchett (author)
“I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.”
⁓ Kim Smith (model)
“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us. But we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another’s eyes or heart.”
⁓ Sue Monk Kidd (author)
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
⁓ Muriel Rukeyser (poet, political activist)
“Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.”
⁓ Richard P. Denney (author)
“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
⁓ J.K. Rowling (author)
“Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others.”
⁓ Peter Forbes (photographer)
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
⁓ Joan Didion (writer and journalist)
“Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation. If all we are doing is marketing, we are doing a disservice, and not only to our profession, but to our children, and their children. Give something of meaning to your audience by inspiring, engaging, and educating them with story. Stop marketing. Start storytelling.”
⁓ Laura Holloway (Founder & Chief of The Storyteller Agency)
“Purposeful storytelling isn’t show business, it’s good business.”
⁓ Peter Guber (CEO of Mandalay Entertainment)
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.”
⁓ Robert McKee (author, lecturer and story consultant)
“Those who tell the stories rule the world.”
⁓ Hopi American Indian proverb
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
⁓ Rūmī (scholar, mystic and poet)
“We are all fools in love.”
⁓ Jane Austen (novelist)
“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.”
⁓ Hans Christian Andersen (writer, poet)
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
⁓ Philip Pullman (author)
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
⁓ Paulo Coelho (novelist)
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
⁓ Maya Angelou (poet, civil rights activist)
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
⁓ Carl Sagan (astrophysicist, cosmologist and author)
“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
⁓ Jean Luc Godard (film director)
“The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.”
⁓ Adrienne C. Moore (actress)
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
⁓ Orson Welles (filmmaker, actor)
“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”
⁓ George R. R. Martin (author, screenwriter, film producer)
“Despite the natural belittling of one’s self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our own autobiography, we are the authors of our life story. Realising that, write a good story with your life and make sure to write yourself as the protagonist. Be the hero of your journey.”
⁓ Yossi Ghinsberg (adventurer, author)
“Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.”
⁓ Aleks Krotoski (broadcaster, journalist)
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
⁓ Neil Gaiman (author, screenwriter)
“Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.”
⁓ Aaron Rodgers (NFL football quarterback)
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
⁓ Hannah Arendt (political theorist, philosopher)
“Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.”
⁓ Charles de Lint (author)
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
⁓ C. S. Lewis (writer, scholar)
“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.”
⁓ Frank Zappa (musician)
“The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’”
⁓ Leo Tolstoy (novelist)
“I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before.”
⁓ James Cameron (filmmaker)
“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
⁓ Jimi Hendrix (musician)
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
⁓ Walter Cronkite (journalist, broadcaster)
“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers – creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers.”
⁓ Daniel Pink (business writer)
“The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.”
⁓ José Mourinho (football manager)
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
⁓ Thomas Jefferson (American Founding Father)
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”
⁓ Terry Pratchett (author)
“I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.”
⁓ Kim Smith (model)
“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us. But we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another’s eyes or heart.”
⁓ Sue Monk Kidd (author)
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
⁓ Muriel Rukeyser (poet, political activist)
“Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.”
⁓ Richard P. Denney (author)
“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
⁓ J.K. Rowling (author)
“Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others.”
⁓ Peter Forbes (photographer)
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
⁓ Joan Didion (writer and journalist)
“Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation. If all we are doing is marketing, we are doing a disservice, and not only to our profession, but to our children, and their children. Give something of meaning to your audience by inspiring, engaging, and educating them with story. Stop marketing. Start storytelling.”
⁓ Laura Holloway (Founder & Chief of The Storyteller Agency)
“Purposeful storytelling isn’t show business, it’s good business.”
⁓ Peter Guber (CEO of Mandalay Entertainment)
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.”
⁓ Robert McKee (author, lecturer and story consultant)
“Those who tell the stories rule the world.”
⁓ Hopi American Indian proverb
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
⁓ Rūmī (scholar, mystic and poet)
“We are all fools in love.”
⁓ Jane Austen (novelist)
“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.”
⁓ Hans Christian Andersen (writer, poet)
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
⁓ Philip Pullman (author)
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
⁓ Paulo Coelho (novelist)
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
⁓ Maya Angelou (poet, civil rights activist)
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
⁓ Carl Sagan (astrophysicist, cosmologist and author)
“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
⁓ Jean Luc Godard (film director)
“The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.”
⁓ Adrienne C. Moore (actress)
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
⁓ Orson Welles (filmmaker, actor)
“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”
⁓ George R. R. Martin (author, screenwriter, film producer)
“Despite the natural belittling of one’s self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our own autobiography, we are the authors of our life story. Realising that, write a good story with your life and make sure to write yourself as the protagonist. Be the hero of your journey.”
⁓ Yossi Ghinsberg (adventurer, author)
“Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.”
⁓ Aleks Krotoski (broadcaster, journalist)
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
⁓ Neil Gaiman (author, screenwriter)
“Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.”
⁓ Aaron Rodgers (NFL football quarterback)
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
⁓ Hannah Arendt (political theorist, philosopher)
“Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.”
⁓ Charles de Lint (author)
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
⁓ C. S. Lewis (writer, scholar)
“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.”
⁓ Frank Zappa (musician)
“The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’”
⁓ Leo Tolstoy (novelist)
“I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before.”
⁓ James Cameron (filmmaker)
“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
⁓ Jimi Hendrix (musician)
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
⁓ Walter Cronkite (journalist, broadcaster)
“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers – creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers.”
⁓ Daniel Pink (business writer)
“The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.”
⁓ José Mourinho (football manager)
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
⁓ Thomas Jefferson (American Founding Father)
