Quotes About Narrative

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.

The nWo almost singlehandedly ruined the business as far as good guys, bad guys, cowboys, and Indians.

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

Spoilers are inevitable.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.

Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the show, and at the same time, they want to think that showrunners have the story all mapped out in our brains. But it can't be both. In truth, we were usually far ahead of the fan feedback.

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some characters years later.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

Film has its own innate poetry.

I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to write from an abstract idea, no matter how interesting or compelling I feel the idea might be.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

Actors that don't look like they're acting and stories that are told well inspire me.