Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating. — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
“If you don’t formulate your own narrative, you become a pawn in someone else’s.” — James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.” — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.” — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Detail is not ornamentation you apply to action and dialogue the way you add seasoning to food. It has a narrative function… — Daniel Galera Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true.… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“The crucial question, therefore, is not how to accomplish the final reconciliation. That messianic problem ought not to be taken out of… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.” — Eberhard Jüngel Copy Share Image
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
