Quotes About Narrative

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

I love being able to tell a story visually. It's something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

I do like musicals, but I'm not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have a song in them, like someone has a cabaret number.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

The first 10 years of my journey, I was still figuring out who I was, and then I had to redo it all over again when I became bigger. So instead of saying, 'I'm gay and this is me,' I started telling the story through my music.

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind of idea generator that you didn't need to dissect and open up. And that's absolutely fascinating and an engaging way to tell a story.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.