Quotes About Narrative

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the narrative of racial difference that we created to justify it.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked on.

My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it at the time, but that's what really built me up.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.