Quotes About Storytelling

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.