Cinema Quote by Brett Morgen

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically…

— Peter Greenaway

Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget…

— Raoul Peck

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

— Frederick Wiseman

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

— Paul Lansky

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.

— Dominique Crenn

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

— Johann Johannsson

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by…

— Aaron Sorkin

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're…

— Morgan Neville

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

— Brett Morgen

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them…

— James W. Loewen

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you…

— Bryan Cranston

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy

I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry…

— Nathan Daniels

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,…

— Trudi Canavan