Quotes About Expression

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I not only want to engage with my fans but want to truly show and express my experiences and potential as a narrator and a story teller.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

I see myself as a story teller.

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

Animation is just another way of telling a story.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

I'm telling the same story in every film.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.