Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a…

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same…

— Edwin Catmull

There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with…

— Deborah Smith

"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections…

— Aleksandra Mir

The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is…

— Fred Ritchin

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past,…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

— Todd Haynes

'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed partition, and…

— Gulzar

Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not…

— Edwin Catmull

“linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,”

— Jill Talbot

We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality.…

— Irvine Welsh

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very…

— Peter Greenaway

All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the…

— William Zinsser

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

— Elizabeth Banks

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning,…

— Socrates

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge