Quotes about narrative
narrative hollywood cinema
There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. Christine Vachon
narrative storytelling attributes
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. Christina Baldwin
narrative way rooms
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 drives the narrative? Who is in charge? Jeff Greenfield
narrative cold reactions
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. Jhumpa Lahiri
narrative obsessive people stop
Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. Rita Ora
narrative point sink teeth
At that point I had a real 30-year narrative to sink my teeth into.
narrative way firsts
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage. Nicholson Baker
narrative stories literature
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Rachel Weisz
narrative form
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. Sidney Sheldon
narrative storyteller imposing
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. Michael Kimmelman
narrative
I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous. Jim Crace
narrative theme filmmaking
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme. Darren Aronofsky
narrative filmmaking
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
narrative bones breaking-things
The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives. Guy Maddin
narrative documentaries inspired
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. Griffin Dunne
narrative heroines my-own
I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. Cate Blanchett
narrative purpose ambiguity
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. Scott Turow
narrative way events
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. Steven Pinker
narrative sooner-or-later
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us. John Scalzi
narrative conclusion reader
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. Rick Atkinson
narrative eloquence grounded
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Ralph Waldo Emerson
narrative attention entering
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. Terry Tempest Williams
narrative
I tried to control the narrative. Lance Armstrong
narrative-structure would-be ultimate
The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. Johnny Depp
narrative stories painting
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. Peter Greenaway
narrative lines thin-air
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. Joan Didion
narrative metaphor myth
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Joseph Campbell
narrative world subjects
There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects. John Madden
narrative evolution scientist
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists. Robert Neelly Bellah
narrative height depth
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Thomas Carlyle
narrative share born
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die. Steven Erikson
narrative firsts tools
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. James McBride
narrative stories one-liner
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. Tim Vine