One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.
I brought in the stories many times. I don’t just do animation.
It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method...
Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it’s hard to make a story out of it.
Mellow doesn’t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that’s a very Christian thing to do.
My favorite stories are human, so I’m always looking for.
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn’t be less interested in it. It’s not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done, but it just bores me.
I’m just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it’s a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.
If you’re telling a story it’s always best not to play the ending.
Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn’t exist. We were not part of any stories.
Anyone who tells you they’re not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I’m afraid they’re not telling you the whole story.
Albums are chapters. They’re part of a story.
When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There’s no question of interpretation of what we are saying it’s just about feeling. You create your own story.
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don’t know.
Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it’s the purest way to tell a story. It’s about creating images that tell a story and you don’t need dialogue for that.
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
There’s the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.