Agendas Quote by Edward Zwick

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

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to…

— Michael Giacchino

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited…

— Djimon Hounsou

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

— Nia DaCosta

I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose…

— Charlie McDowell

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and…

— Sarah Waters

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

— Charlize Theron

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

— David Strathairn

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

— Ishaan Khatter

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