Quotes About Expression

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more like Pacino or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep or De Niro - you know, a chameleon as a storyteller - because I love all kinds of movies.

To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

I am a storyteller by trade.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

I'm a storyteller.

I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis do. I wanted to do that: to tell stories. I wanted to make people laugh, make people cry. I wanted to be a storyteller.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years.

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

Honestly, I'm the worst storyteller ever. Like, I just take so long.

I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell.

As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes the work more challenging.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.