Arabian Nights (2000)

Alan Bates: Storyteller

Quotes 

• Storyteller : You begin at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stop. Just make sure he doesn't know what will happen next.

• Storyteller : Here again, milady?

  Scheherezade : These people sit for hours, just listening.

  Scheherezade : It's a miracle.

  Storyteller : People need stories, more than bread, itself.

  Storyteller : They teach us how to live, and why.

• Storyteller : You must learn how to leave your audience in suspense.

• Scheherezade : Is this the time for stories?

  Storyteller : It's the perfect time! Stories show us how to win, and in your case: defeat death.

• Scheherezade : These people sit for hours - just listening. It's a miracle!

  Storyteller : People need stories more than bread itself. They tell us how to live, and why.

• Storyteller : You are starting your story again; you have to hook your audience again.