Black Thought Quotes

I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.

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.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.