Quotes About Storytelling

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

Music is half the film.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Is that you giggling away to glory?Or is that just the flowers mingling with the bees and telling their story?

What I really want to do is produce. There isn't much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.