Quotes About Narrative

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.

I never shoot my movies like I'm shooting 'a horror movie,' I shoot them like dramas. Dramas and then something horrible happens.

It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

I'm a huge fan of not doing world-building or exposition. My eyes glaze over when I see it.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences of images and even each image, a single shot, are assimilated to propositions or rather oral utterances [...].