Quotes About Narrative

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.