Quotes About Narrative

Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or two or three really strong characters who will hold the narrative throughout the work.

I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.

An authentic and honest brand narrative is fundamental today; otherwise, you will simply be edited out.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.

Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways.

I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm.

We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many.

I think when you go in, with film or television, you want to tell this narrative. And with 'Joshy,' you want it to be grounded with moments - it's not like, 'Everyone be as funny as you can, quickly, at all times!' It's not like that. You have to pick the right improvisers.

For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it.

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

What matters to me as a creative artist is the credibility of the production house, the honesty in the script, and the way the filmmaker has conceived the characters in the narrative.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.

'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something.

Because boys tend to dominate the narrative for who's at risk, sometimes they dominate the lion's share of services, too.

'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Paula are alternatives to what we, as plus-size women in America, have been told is our narrative, which is, you should be hating yourself or hating others for how you look.

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.