Quotes About Narrative

I grew up in a world where stories and images were made and told by men. So I know this world very well. I am moved by this world.

For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first of all, there are other people already doing that, and they're making a lot of money doing it.

Visually, I want to try everything. But I believe that every shot of my films really expresses what I think about the story and the character. The most important thing is the story, not the images.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

'Baadshaho' is not an imaginative film, it's real and made it an entertaining way.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don't hear any real stories. I don't think we ever had the chance to really tell our side.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there's any other way to ensure the betterment of the film, I always implement it.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'

9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.