Quotes About Narrative

What's the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it's straightforward. It's story. VR tells stories better than any medium.

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.

History is about who tells it.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.

I am ready to act in Telugu if I get a good story.

I think very few shows have come into our industry and changed the tempo and the narrative of stories, and 'Once Upon a Time' did that.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.