Quotes About Narrative

This impeachment narrative started before President Trump was even nominated to the Repub - as the Republican candidate.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm just not good at implementing direct narrative in my games.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a script and you want me to take off my top, and it doesn't serve a purpose, then I'm not going to do it.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.