The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative… — Ben Lerner 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
We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Comics have the page as their real estate so you've only got that space to tell the story on. But the other… — Leah Moore Copy Share Image
The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning. Every day liberals can create a new narrative that… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn't contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image