Quotes About Narrative

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.