Quotes About Interpretation

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I'm always looking for a story.

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I'm a good storyteller.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.