Saul Bass Quotes

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.

Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative.

The method in which 'Vadachennai' is narrated gives a feeling as if you are travelling with the characters to the different eras where the various situations happen.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

The core of the film is usually something very emotional and something that feels really real that you can relate to, it's not like done in a false way. You know a lot of films will treat emotion falsely and you can sense that very quickly.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I think tone gives birth to the story.