Cinema Quote by Peter Greenaway

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

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and…

— Rick Alverson

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 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

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

— Nia DaCosta

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

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

— Barbara Kopple

“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions.…

— Gilles Deleuze

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

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of…

— Sally Potter

“As one of the most pervasive forms of cultural narrative in industrialized societies, commercial film serves as an extremely powerful vehicle of myth… To…

— Rosemary Hennessy