Quotes About Narrative

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

The most grotesque doctrines can look like common sense when embedded in a compelling narrative,

The failure to tell a new story has been matched by an equally remarkable omission: the failure to discern and describe the values and principles that might inform our politics.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?" "How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story.

All the stories can't be lies.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't even there. — George Santanaya As

It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight more storytellers.

Decidedly, the stories that turn the tribes tragic are not their own stories.

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!