Quotes About Narrative

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Whether it's a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.

In the second season, usually television shows are running with the characters; they really get them. And then, the third season, they can push characters and really explore secondary storylines and things like that. And so I tend to like third seasons of most shows.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

I do really long DJ sets - I play for five or six hours sometimes - but the live shows are a bit more compact. The arch of how to tell a story, where the energy is, where you have peaks and drops, where things go up and things come down, that's all being informed by DJ-ing.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.