Quotes About Narrative

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to prevent us from continuing to grapple with the story at hand. It ideally should demand that we remain engaged with the story.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

Big stories need human stakes.

People want real-life stories.

Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

I love adventure stories.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

My grandfather told me our history through his stories about all the great Zulu battles.

Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect metaphor for life because we're all on a journey trying to figure out where we're going and who we are. 'Solomon Creed' is just doing it with more danger and guns involved.