Quotes About Storytelling

'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

My films are musically inclined.

I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind of idea generator that you didn't need to dissect and open up. And that's absolutely fascinating and an engaging way to tell a story.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'

Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.