Quotes About Narrative

I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

I think of my body of work as a story that flows and plays in my mind like a film.

When you're writing in first person, like I do, you can't give a fluffy version of someone's thoughts because even the most prudish woman in her head will go to dark places, whether she says it out loud, you can still have these kind of thoughts.

I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

It's satisfying to watch a story where you feel like you're a fly on the wall.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through songs, look at our folk cultures.

Scale is very easy actually. Put a camera on a jib or a drone and get bloody big shots on big sets, it's very easy. But then you're distracted. If you're looking at the shot, you aren't following the story any more.

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

If I'm reading a book by a footballer I don't want to read about games, how he scored or played well. People want to read what you thought, not what happened.

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

BoJack' is a very much a format-based show. The story should always match the format, but I don't necessarily think the story has to come first.

Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.