Quotes About Narrative

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

Seeing ourselves reflected in stories gives people the courage to keep doing what they are doing or make a change.

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.

I think it's refreshing that it's not called 'The Archie Show.' It's called 'Riverdale,' not 'Archie,' which is good.

It's refreshing to tell a story from a woman's point of view which says it's normal not to want kids.

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are writing about.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case for me, whether I'm making documentaries or fiction films.

Regardless of the size of the budget or the name of the director, if the story is really interesting, then I can get on board with it. If it's not, then they're not gonna cast me anyway, because I'll just give a terrible audition.

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.

I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through them. In the past, I've always written about my experiences and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never written about that people have gone through.

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

If you find a story that everybody likes and everybody relates to in some way, then you know you have a good story. But if you're telling a story and all the women are going, 'I'm checked out of this, I just don't really care,' then you're going to have some problems.

I wouldn't know what to say about something that worked in a perfect way, so I guess, in everything, I try to find what doesn't work and expose it and then see how it relates to people and their stories and their character.

I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest.

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.