Quotes About Narrative

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

People just want good stories.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

This is a bad story." "Sorry. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have told you." "No, you should," I say. "But—" "I don't want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

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

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

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.

All breaks in the narrative of living had more to do with the limits of what could be sustained at any one time, the reach of temporary exhaustion. Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

Join us, friend," said Kruppe. "Sit here by this fire: this scene paints the history of our kind, as you well know. A night, a hearth, and a tale to spin…

o There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.