Quotes About Narrative

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

It's always the story that interests me.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

You can't write a story about L.A. that doesn't turn around in the middle or get lost

En cada página está el poder de decir lo indecible… al igual que está en la historia entre bastidores del propio libro

My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.

An epic is a poem including history.

Monocausality reduces the study of history to meaningless simplicities (p.14).

Usually plot is to fiction what form is to poetry. It lifts and fills the rambling language and presses it down into a single shape and sound. (85)

All roles are visible , when the story ends

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. Itís a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

I'm a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.