Narrative Quotes

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.

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 they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.