Quotes About Narrative

For the longest time, I was in random cold matches for 30 minutes and tore the house down for no reason, and everyone complained, 'Why isn't he in some kind of a story?'

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a white guy who's the savior.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

You could argue that 'Game of Thrones' has been around longer than 'Westworld,' but honestly, either one - I don't have a side or anything - I love them both equally.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together.

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will make their own content, if no one else will do it for them.

For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.

I want to do films in different languages because I want to tell stories in different genres.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

Action should always be about character and story, not a gimmick.

There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.