Narrative Quotes - Page 6

My god is narrative filmmaking.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

I hear music as narrative.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

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.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it.

To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.