Sentences with phrase «made as a storyteller»

I know how much I've made as a storyteller in various mediums, but the book business is still pretty much a mystery to me.

I was going to make it as a storyteller with or without Amazon.

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Certainly the circuit riders became consummate storytellers, as witness Peter Cartwright's Autobiography — the bulk of which appears to be made up of stories he had told hundreds of times in the more than fourteen thousand sermons he is alleged to have preached.

Here, kids ages three to twelve can enjoy crafts and activities that immerse them in the Southwestern experience, such as making Indian headbands and pinch pots; hearing tales told by cowboy storytellers; learning about local culture, geography and indigenous plants and animals; or splashing around in the Water Playground.

«Django Unchained» is «Blazing Saddles» with a body count, a positively incendiary entertainment about America's greatest shame, the personal and social toll of slavery, and like Tarantino's last film, «Inglourious Basterds,» this is a case of history being remixed in a way that makes more emotional sense to Tarantino as a storyteller.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

The latter made his name as a filmmaker with the 2009 country musician drama Crazy Heart (which landed Jeff Bridges his Academy Award), and further established himself as a storyteller interested in making mood / performance - driven fare with the dramatic thriller Out of the Furnace and Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass..

Like the composer Stew did in his 2006 rock musical «Passing Strange,» Eagle makes grand narrative connections across «Brick Body Kids...» and does so through his skills as a storyteller and rapper with a sublimely confident flow.

As a storyteller he has long made a habit out of extreme personalities, a preoccupation that during the 1990s was matched by one of the most playfully expressive styles in American mainstream pictures.

It's appropriate that the end credits of Halloweens hould refer to the menacing hometown boy as The Shape: this superior low - budget thriller is form made fiercely functional, style as the delicious complicity between storyteller and audience.

For all Anderson's fastidiousness as a stylist and his idiosyncrasies as a storyteller, he has made an audience picture through and through: a witty, subversive dark comedy that had the audience cackling repeatedly, and in all the right places, both times I saw it.

Yet De Felitta chose to make Mary's grown - up son the storyteller, ergo Two Family House is second - hand nostalgia on - screen as well.

In making «To the Bone,» Noxon found a new freedom and confidence as a storyteller, in part embracing an ambiguity and lack of definitive answers she likely wouldn't be allowed on a network TV show.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

Since «Punch - Drunk Love,» Anderson has become a more confident storyteller, allowing his films to evolve as he's making them.

«If it creates an interest for people to see the film then that's fantastic because it makes our jobs as storytellers much easier, and more importantly for me, having had some experience with this extraordinary man I really want his story to be known as broadly as possible.»

Comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia made a giant leap as filmmaker with this perfectly realized movie about a tight - knit New York City improv troupe and how one member's success affects the delicate balance of the group.

Brian Cox makes one squirm uncomfortably, but only because he has such a clichéd role as the present day storyteller — I haven't seen a sincere form of this cheesy framing device for years.

Of course, you could try and heed Del's advice and not get attached to the horses, but Haigh's skill as a storyteller makes that practically impossible.

As You Are is the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Miles Joris - Peyrafitte, premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and it will hopefully give Miles the break he needs to make more films - because he seems to be a very talented storyteller.

He's also a sly storyteller, borrowing devices from other films (the back of the car camera POV just after the bank robbery is a nod to the seminal shot from Gun Crazy) and skillful edits (Margaret Hayes climbs the stairs to her bedroom, and we straight cut to Lee Marvin in a bed, tossing and turning, in another part of town entirely) to make societal commentary as skewering as 1950s subversive Douglas Sirk.

In an unusual casting, Ms. Simmonds is really deaf, which could make directing her difficult, but that was not a problem in the hands of Todd Haynes, who has a reputation as a fine storyteller.

After making only three films, Bayona has established himself as a very emotional storyteller.

Burton has made a career of compensating for his weakness as a storyteller with his visual flair, but here it's a necessary but still too heavy weight on the narrative.

Revenge narratives are a dime a dozen but when storytellers are able to really get to the root of why these archetypal tales are so compelling, as Saulnier is able to do here, they strike a collective nerve, making us cheer at their ability to both homage and be wholly original at the same time.

The rare exception is for students with learning needs such as dyslexia, but this exception is worth making for the huge boost to confidence of being a Young Storyteller.

Here children can be active, rather than passive, as they engage with books and magazines with other children and storytellers make stories come to life.

The best bit of advice for anyone who is trying to make it as an author / writer / storyteller whatever you feel comfortable in calling yourself, and that is, never pay to have your story told.

Conroy uses his many gifts as a storyteller and cultural observer to make South of Broad at once a complete portrait of a specific time and place, and also a classic, timeless coming - of - age story.

They are as different as chalk and cheese, but a master storyteller of Rankin's caliber can draw in his audience, making them sympathize (and identify) in equal parts with the hard - charging Rebus and the taciturn Fox, all the while not missing a beat in the plotting, the setting, the characters and the ever - present battle between good and evil.

They really didn't see themselves as being able to make a decision alone or take action to improve their lot, despite the fact that THEY are the creatives, the storytellers, the brilliant ones.

Exchanging stories with characters, witnessing dramatic scenes and exploring cities are all represented as beautifully drawn still images in a rough sketchpad style, something that a wandering storyteller might make use of.

As a storyteller, I've seen some tellers reveal some deeply personal things in a way that is very moving, and I've seen others reveal some fairly shallow Jr High kind of things that made the audience uncomfortable.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and the principles that guide my creative decision - making apply equally in fiction and documentary work.

More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand.

Gates» role as an archivist, historian, and storyteller of black narratives is foundational to his practice, but it is his ability to shift between the museum, the gallery and the street that has made him one of the world's most influential artists.

This year, Grant funded projects included AV Festival 14: Extraction in Newcastle, Geoffrey Farmer: Let's Make the Water Turn Black at Nottingham Contemporary, and Eva Kot «átková: A Storyteller's Inadequacy at Modern Art Oxford, as well as to PSL, Studio Voltaire, CIRCA Projects, and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

If I imagine different realities than the one I'm actually living, and make works from my imagination so I can tap into memories and history, as well as recreate time sequences that never actually happened in the painting, then I am a storyteller of what could have possibly happened in actual time and place.

Nevertheless, as his first solo exhibition of abstract paintings and drawings with Mixed Greens makes clear, he is a storyteller at heart.

«From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.»

So, just as a master storyteller guides the reader, a real estate professional can assist the buyers in making sense of the real story unfolding.