Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. — Barbara Kopple Copy Share Image
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. — David Shields Copy Share Image
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their… — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
Most people are glad for somebody else to share their own story of how they have found spiritual help. The problems start… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
“At the heart of every flourishing democracy is the unyielding commitment to free speech. It is the beacon that illuminates the path… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“Novels begin and end with, consist of, and indeed in one sense are nothing but voices. So reading is learning to listen… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
