Quotes About Narrative

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

Kratos began life as an anti-hero at a time when anti-heroes in games were scarce.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.

I find the mediums to be incredibly different. In theatre you're telling the same story eight times a week, and in TV that story is constantly changing and you're often telling it out of order based on shooting schedules.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

You get more time to see the growth of a character in a series, there's no scope for that in films.

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

Who has ownership over stories these days?

For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have to have a sense of ownership over it and believe that you're bringing something meaningful to it - because that's what all of the developers are doing, and that's what the story demands.

I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way.