Dan Trachtenberg Quotes

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

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

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

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

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

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.

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting out there for people to see.