Lena Dunham Quotes

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.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

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

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

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

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

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

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

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'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

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

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

I like to make little movies or fake stories about something that happened in my life. I will make a movie in my mind that would translate the same feeling or emotion that I had in whatever just happened.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.