Quotes About Expression

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

I feel like I get drawn to - and I know it sounds cheesy but - I love storytelling.

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

The first rule of hip-hop is probably keep it real. And that can mean a lot of different things, but that's certainly important in reporting and storytelling.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Storytelling is the important thing.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.