Quotes About Expression

Rappers were my storytellers.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got very angsty. But comedians are storytellers so it's really a hop, skip and a jump.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

We are the storytelling animal.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives us this bigger canvas to paint on. It opens up all sorts of new storytelling possibilities.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.