Quotes About Interpretation

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

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

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

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

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

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.