Quotes About Narrative

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.

History picks interesting messengers.

This is the Ben Crump model: He goes into a city, creates a narrative, cherry picks facts to establish, to prove that narrative, creates chaos in a community, misrepresents the facts, and then he leaves with his money, and then asks the community to pick up the pieces.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.