Quotes About Narrative

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

You find a story - or more importantly, you find some characters - that you want to be around as a filmmaker. The style and how we're going to shoot it and how we're going to design it and how it's all going to feel and look depends on that story. They tell me how I should shoot it.

I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I feel Bengali directors have offered me characters which have a story to tell and not just impress people because of what I wear in the film. That's the kind of roles I want to do.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

In fact, I don't watch any fiction shows.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.

Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene. That scene doesn't always have to be in the beginning of the film. But it can also be at the end, or in the middle, and that can sometimes make the film more effective.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

I inadvertently made Israel look better without even trying, because I am this Muslim guy from Israel who does not hate Israel!

I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep.

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.