Donald Davis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
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With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
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Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
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I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
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I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
-- Donald Davis
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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
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Human beings cannot live without stories.
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I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
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Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.
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Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.
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Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
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