Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
“That's the great truth of failed relationships, the narrative and the absence of narrative. Each time you tell the story, it makes… — Stephanie Reents Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and… — Finn Andrews Copy Share Image
People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So,… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique…If there had been someone… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever… — Shura 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
We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer… — Philip Kitcher 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
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
I think when you go in, with film or television, you want to tell this narrative. And with 'Joshy,' you want it… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
I want the vetting to be solid. But I also want to bring these people in because not bringing them in sends… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
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