I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living,… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have a narrative and to have a point with your music and to be going somewhere with… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
“Simply raising the theme of animals in the Third Reich means that our narrative is no longer only an account of what… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
