Quotes About Narrative

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

It's so hard to put your journey apart from the story line, when you've lived through it yourself or know what's a spoiler and what's not, especially when I wasn't a fan of 'The Witcher' before I started filming.

Filming 'The Drew,' thinking a lot about story arcs and all that stuff, I thought about how my career ended. I decided I wanted to try to rewrite that.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.