Narrative Quotes - Page 12

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.