Quotes About Narrative

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. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but he had fled.

El perspectivismo, que Cervantes contribuyó a inaugurar en la novela, es un procedimiento narrativo gracias al cual una misma y sola realidad es abordada desde distintos puntos de vista, según los diversos personajes, lo que resulta no tanto en versiones diferentes de la realidad como, de hecho, en varias "realidades

I realize that Original Cindy is a compass, but instead of pointing north, she points to "horse story.

I truly believe that everyone has a story and everyone's story counts.

Contar una aventura no es el objetivo; los personajes ayudan a escuchar a otro, que quizá sea mi hermano, mi prójimo, mi amigo, mi ancestro, mi doble.

Les "cœurs sur la main" n'ont pas d'histoire;

Suspense is simply the dramatization of a film's narrative, or if you will, the most intense presentation possible of dramatic situations.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

Storytelling and ritual enactment are amongst the oldest arts, predating the communication of narrative in written form; thus while a specific adaptation project might yet be taxed with trampling on hallowed, pre-laid, literary ground, theatre itself has authoritative claims as a space historically defined by narrative (re)telling.

She married Mr. Gundover's Dick.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

You could keep people alive forever through stories.

I don't want a happy ending. I want more story.

Nunca dejes que la realidad te estropee una buena historia.

With the Adoration, he had learned that when it comes to portraying revelation, typology—the deep similarity of apparently unrelated figures and events—is more important than chronology, the temporal succession of events. This is because what is being presented is not a storia, a narrative, but a prefiguration that collapses time and space.

My stories are not story shaped, they're me shaped.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

Si no pasa la prueba del «¿Dice de qué va?», no has dado con tu título. Ni tienes aún el doble gancho que constituye junto a una gran premisa.