Quotes About Narrative

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

With 'River Monsters,' it sometimes didn't matter if the story was made up or exaggerated.

I love writing about monsters and food.

I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it.

You don't hear many stories about people who grow up, have normal lives, pay taxes and pay bills, have mortgages and have kids. You hear stories about Billy the Kid for a reason.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just have to be someone who can tell a good story, and tell it right, and tell it well.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.

The way people see Africa is mostly dark.

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.