Abstraction Quote by Alfonso Cuaron

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And…

— Edward Zwick

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things…

— Rick Alverson

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie…

— Jose Padilha

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song…

— David O. Russell

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about…

— Kevin Wilson

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

— Charlize Theron

Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If…

— David Lynch

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 does not…

— Peter Greenaway

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

— Stanley Kubrick