Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and… — Gregory Crewdson
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a… — Joss Whedon
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying… — Sean Penn
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the… — Michael Warren
I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. — Ajay Naidu
American movie audiences now just donâ€™t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or… — Steven Soderbergh
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the… — Roger Ebert
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. Itâ€™s abstract but still narrative. Everything… — Emmanuel Lubezki
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of… — John Burnside
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the… — Peter Straub
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information, — Ian Mcewan
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it… — Guy Gavriel Kay
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day… — Ian Fleming
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways… — Don DeLillo
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. — Robert Creeley
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. — Garry Winogrand
In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and… — Clementine Ford

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