“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
Walter Benjamin
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
Thomas Mann
“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
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.”
George Bernard Shaw
“ecstatic truth. I've always tried to strive for a much deeper truth in the images, in cinema, in storytelling, on a screen, so whether I've achieved it or not remains to be seen. . . . There are short fleeting moments when I know that I have achieved it. And to work for that and to strive for it and to try, gives at least some dignity and some meaning to my existence.”
Werner Herzog
“To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating.”
Ben Kingsley
“No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”
Lazarus Long
