Quotes About Narrative

I'm just a story teller.

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

I see myself as a story teller.

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

Animation is just another way of telling a story.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I really love the work that I do, and I feel like you have to go that extra mile to do it because it is a responsibility. Telling stories is a responsibility.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

I'm telling the same story in every film.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.