Quotes About Narrative

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had to cede so much control to others. It really - it became the place where I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to excavate some meaning from it.

As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

That's what I look for in models: Someone who can tell a story and has a presence in front of the camera.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.

It's like, if you have a story that's already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we're telling that story, how we're presenting it to the world.

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

In fact, the only way to inspire people to embrace change is through setting a narrative and telling a story. It can be central to innovation and change, and at the same time it can preserve tradition and memories.

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.