Quotes About Narrative

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In addition, the Commission succeeded in arousing the sympathy of the people, by sharing individual complaint cases in emotional narrative form, accelerating the necessary shift of government policies. Based on the public sentiment, it also significantly contributed to raising the people's confidence in the government policies that have consideration for the socially disadvantaged

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

To be heartbroken means to have a story

The English-speaking world developed a historical narrative known as the "Black Legend," which portrayed the Spanish as cruel and backward conquistadores who murdered and plundered their way through the Caribbean and Latin America. The British, in contrast (according to their own account), were hard-working, forward-looking colonists (rather than colonizers) who industriously set up self-sufficient farming villages on empty lands.

we in the West have not bothered to develop an effective counternarrative because from the outset we have denied that Islamic extremism is in any way related to Islam. We persist in focusing on the violence and not on the ideas that give rise to it.

There's nothing wrong with taking bold action. Life and happiness occasionally demand it. But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule. Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it.

I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.

I think the best rappers practice concept albums in their work.

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.

Flashback in film rarely works.

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

When I reach out to people to ask them to be involved in anything I shoot, I want them to want to share their story.

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.