Quotes About Expression

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.

Every good look needs a storyline.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

I'm a good storyteller.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

For a long time, I bought into the idea that if you are a woman who is a storyteller and a lover of movies, then the best way to express that is as an actress. Obviously, there are women my age who are directors who didn't buy into that idea, but I did - and now I've broken that down inside myself.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.