Quotes About Narrative

Sadly, the mainstream media doesn't like to linger very long on news stories that might present President Trump in a positive light.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.

Every country has a dark side of their history.

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.

It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who's a dear friend of mine.

I am not into this old-school way of doing things, where you kill characters, and you bring them back, and then you kill them again, and then you bring them back, and their deaths mean nothing.

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.