Quotes About Narrative

I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am telling stories about people of color.

The experience of 'Braveheart' was great, but I was a little disappointed that we weren't telling the rest of the story.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

I don't think I have tried to give any message through 'Mulk.' But I have put certain things on the table which are usually discussed in the living rooms, not in our cinema.

I think it's quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

The Champions Club demands the legend of Dr Disrespect be told.

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an expert on one thing, and I am an expert on this person, and so I write about it.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.