The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. — Morgan Neville 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
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways. — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
“8:37 Instead of narrative build-up, what if we have Icarus crawling right into the water - wings on, indifferent to flight -… — Thalia Field Copy Share Image
I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy. — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
“Does being true to one's self mean offering the literal truth or the truth that should have been, the truth of the… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“This was supposed to be the Presidential Suite," she said, gazing into the room at the holes in the wall. well, even… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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