Quotes About Narrative

I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story.

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.

We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.

There was a point I felt like everyone was heading in that direction of 'How can we be darker than 'Breaking Bad?'

I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

I used to tell people when I was 15 or 16 that I'd never be that girl who goes through this, gets her heart broken, falls for this guy, but I ended up being her.

I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me. I did 'Lust Stories', 'Made in Heaven' and 'Gully Boy'.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.

Most of the version of Tudor history we know is through the eyes of Henry VIII.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

The hero is never the star of the story.