Quotes About Narrative

I see a lot of myself in a young Mike Vrabel. He is very competitive. He is very respectful of the game, but he looks at each opportunity as an opportunity to prove something that people don't think you can do, and he'll create that narrative.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

Early in my career, I was told I shouldn't try to work in a kitchen, that I should consider serving or managing instead. It was a sad narrative that was given to me, and it came from a society that didn't know better.

The narrative in 2020 must speak about gender equality which will only come from empowering the women who've been given the short end of the stick for far too long.

I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.'

'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film.

Television has been breaking narrative rules.

The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don't think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

Narratives are very important to me.

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

Someday... Someday. What? They'll sing your praises? They'll write your story? You don't have a story, little one. You're simply a footnote in mine.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

Image and perception are everything, and those who possess them have the ability to determine their own myth, to be taken at their own valuation.

Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

our mission is nothing less (or more) than participating with God in this grand story until he brings it to its guaranteed climax.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.