Quotes About Narrative

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

I hear music as narrative.

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

I'm the first transsexual fighter in MMA. Like, ever. It's always going to be part of the narrative, but I'll deal with it. I'll try my best to use it to my advantage.

If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.

It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.

There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.

The only consistency in the work I do is that I try to use cinematography to best tell the narrative and do justice to the character arcs, but not to do it in such an overt way that people are distracted by it.