Narrative Quotes - Page 4

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform strategies encourage us to valorize harmful systems that our movements should be seeking to dismantle.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.