I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative…

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I…

— Matthew Barney

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

— Christine Vachon

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

— Morgan Neville

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I…

— Guy Maddin

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction.…

— Elia Suleiman

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

— Adrian Grenier

The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative…

— Alex Hammond

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes…

— Debra Granik

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

— Gaston Bachelard

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

— Orhan Pamuk

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying…

— Christian Louboutin

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

— Patty Duke

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

— Hari Kunzru

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

— Sean Parker

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

— Wayne Dyer