Quotes About Expression

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.

I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

It's almost like a theater, where I can play a character in every song, 'cause Kamelot songs are very... There's always a narrative going on. There's a story within albums and in songs, so I get to play a character and sing it in a different way than people might recognize coming from me.

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

My shows are not narratives.

Narratives are very important to me.

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from the heart.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.