Tituss Burgess Quotes

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.

I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.