Quotes About Creativity

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'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.

When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.

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

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Storytelling is the important thing.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

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

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

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.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.

All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.