Quotes About Narrative

If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.

We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own story is a life worthy to be read

Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and manipulating the world around us.

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.

Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

I explore the mind of souls in stories.

We write the history of our time.

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

Lucifer is the hero of the Bible, and the most misunderstood being in its narrative. He is not Satan, but the Light Bearer!

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.