Perry Chen Quotes

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

Video is just exploding on Instagram - motion is the new filter. We're going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

A film sells feelings.

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

I have always believed that television is a very strong medium to convey stories, stronger than even movies. On television, you have more scope to explore a subject as it gives you more time.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

'Tangerine' taught me that if you win an audience over with comedy, then hopefully have a soulful message at the same time.

When I shoot a film, I take my camera and put it among the characters and let it show you their world, their problems, their happiness and the little things that matter to them.

'Phase' is a special song to me, and I wanted the video to make you feel like you are on a journey with me. My team and I shot this video three different times, and every time I got it back, I wanted to go a step further.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

As great a spectacle as WrestleMania is, there's something to be said for seeing a guy you like telling stories from the heart from 20 feet away.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

My goal is to always try to make you feel something, whether that's humor or sadness or excitement, and to try to manipulate screen space.

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.