Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words… — Howard Gardner
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. — Carter Burwell
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual… — Shane Black
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as… — Anthony Braxton
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a… — Alfonso Cuaron
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. — Shane Carruth
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of… — Suzanne Collins
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians. — Ava DuVernay
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the… — Ava DuVernay
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. — Danai Gurira
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who… — Jeff Greenfield
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,… — Peter Ackroyd
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then.… — Alan Furst
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. — Bruce Feiler
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper… — Jane Campion

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