“They are our storytellers - our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth,”
Cameron Diaz
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
Walter Benjamin
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
Ben Okri
“No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”
Lazarus Long
“Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning”
Chris Cavanaugh
“Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.”
Robert Penn Warren
“He's truly one of the great filmmakers, and just a visionary storyteller, ... So to get to sort of be a part of his world for these past couple of films has been pretty amazing. I feel greatly indebted to the man.”
Hayden Christensen
