Quotes About Narrative

The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

I hope that there will be more and more games that will have something to say and become a little bit more meaningful.

I have always believed that if a film has only two characters, but they do not make any sense, then the film's meaningless.

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

TV is a writer's medium.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

It resonates with me the way women tell stories, the way they see things, and the way they attach what they see to certain emotions.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

I just respond to the stories I'm being asked to tell.

I have always gone with the story which I liked at that point of time and when I retire my filmography will be interesting.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.

We love telling stories about characters who you root for, even though they sometimes make it really hard for you to root for them and the choices they make.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

I don't want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

In film, you can have sad endings.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.