Marco Tempest Quotes

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

I’m trying to please myself; certainly that’s a big criterion... though in a sense, I don’t take images just for myself. I take images that I think other people will want to see. I don’t take pictures to put in a box and hide them. I want as many people to see them as possible.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.