Storytellers Quotes

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That`s what directors are, they`re storytellers because they`re directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That`s what I love.

Because if we the storytellers don`t do this, then the bad people will win.

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it`s not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money. It doesn`t allow everyone who wants to tell stories tell stories. The great storytellers however are going to rise to the top, no matter what. That`s why independent film is very important to me.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they`ve found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that`s still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, "Here`s what I`ve discovered about myself and about the world I`m in. I would like to share this with you." It`s an act of giving.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

The festival is a wonderful event, bringing together Scotland`s finest storytellers and international guests for a programme of folk tales, performance and music.