Quotes About Narrative

I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people -- the autobiographists and the biographists.

Bernard Bailyn

we try to describe the path from then to now, and in doing so select for our accounts the elements in a once indeterminate situation that appear to have led to the future outcome.

But bad luck makes good stories.

Whenever Leslie wanted to talk about something else: basketball practice drills, vacationing in the Bahamas, Mari Carmen rerouted Leslie back to sex, the ultimate destination being March 1, 1989. To keep Mari as a friend, Leslie had to generate more and more sexual juice. When Leslie ran out of sexual anecedotes (truth or fable was anybody's guess), Mari would yawn audibly and end the conversation.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

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an explainer of my own unique journey

Bernardo Carvalho

Geschichten, die man versteht, sind nur schlecht erzählt.

People who understand everything get no stories.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.