I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the…

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité…

— George Hickenlooper

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction…

— George Hickenlooper

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

— Fred Armisen

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is…

— Jess Row

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only…

— Jason Isbell

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office,…

— John Cheever

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that…

— Marco Tempest

“There are other letters, from the heirs of fictional magnates, from the widows of oil barons, from the legal representatives of incarcerated generals, and…

— Teju Cole

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

— David Benioff

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative…

— Anthony Horowitz

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz